Passive Q-switching of fiber lasers using a broadband liquefying gallium mirror
Petropoulos, P., Offerhaus, H.L., Richardson, D.J., Dhanjal, S. and Zheludev, N.I. (1999) Passive Q-switching of fiber lasers using a broadband liquefying gallium mirror. Applied Physics Letters, 74, (24), 3619-3621. (doi:10.1063/1.123200).
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Using a nonlinear cavity element, a liquefying gallium mirror, we demonstrate stable, self-starting, passive Q-switching of both erbium and ytterbium fiber laser cavities operating at wavelengths of 1550 and 1030 nm, respectively. The performance at 1550 nm is shown to be equivalent to that achieved with a state of the art semiconductor saturable absorber designed to work at this wavelength. The results highlight the suitability of this tremendously broadband, inexpensive nonlinear medium for a wide range of passive Q-switch applications.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSNs: | 0003-6951 (print) 1077-3118 (electronic) |
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| Subjects: | T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering Q Science > QC Physics |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > Optoelectronics Research Centre |
| Item ID: | 77805 |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Mar 2010 |
| Last Modified: | 17 May 2013 01:13 |
| Contributors: | Petropoulos, P. (Author) Offerhaus, H.L. (Author) Richardson, D.J. (Author) Dhanjal, S. (Author) Zheludev, N.I. (Author) |
| Date: | 1999 |
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| Status: | Published |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/77805 |
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