Femtoseconds soliton mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser based on nickel oxide nanoparticle saturable absorber

• Main Authors: Nady, A., Ahmed, Mahmoud Hazzaa M., Latiff, Anas Abdul, Raymond Ooi, C.H., Harun, Sulaiman Wadi
• Format: Article
• Published: Optical Society of America 2017
• Subjects: QC Physics; TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/19715/; https://doi.org/10.3788/COL201715.100602

We demonstrate a femtosecond mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser (EDFL) using a nickel oxide (NiO) as a saturable absorber (SA). NiO nanoparticles are hosted into polyethylene oxide film and attached to fiber ferrule in the laser cavity. The NiO-SA shows a 39% modulation depth with a 0.04 MW/cm2 sa...