A Novel Nanotube-Based Fiber Laser for Ultrashort Pulse Generation and Fast Measurements
Open Access
- 1 January 2018
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. in Modern Instrumentation
- Vol. 07 (02), 24-34
- https://doi.org/10.4236/mi.2018.72003
Abstract
We propose a nanotube-based erbium-doped fiber laser that can deliver conventional soliton (CS) and stretched pulse (SP) based on D-shaped fiber saturable absorber (DF-SA) where evanescent-field interaction works. The novel Nanotube-based Fiber Laser can generate SP or CS by tuning pump power and polarization controller (PC) properly. The net cavity dispersion of laser is slightly negative. In our experiment, by optimizing the PC in the cavity, CS and SP can be obtained at the central wavelengths of 1530.6 nm and 1530.3 nm due to on carbon nanotubes and the spectral filtering effect induced by nonlinear polarization rotation. Although the acquired CS and SP nearly have the same central wavelengths, they show distinct optical spectra, 3-dB bandwidths. The proposed fiber laser with switchable CS and SP is attractive for ultrashort pulse generation and fast measurements in practical applications.Keywords
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