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Passive Q-switching of an Er3+:Yb3+ fiber laser with a fiberized liquefying gallium mirror

Passive Q-switching of an Er3+:Yb3+ fiber laser with a fiberized liquefying gallium mirror
Passive Q-switching of an Er3+:Yb3+ fiber laser with a fiberized liquefying gallium mirror
We report a new technique for passive Q-switching of low-power lasers, which exploits nonlinear reflection from a liquefying gallium mirror. Self-start Q-switching has been achieved in an Er3+:Yb3+ fiber laser for circulating intracavity powers of only a few milliwatts. The laser produced a continuous train of pulses as short as 1µs at repetition rates of a few tens of kilohertz with peak powers of 0.5W. Due to the broadband reflective nature of the nonlinearity of gallium, the technique should be applicable to a wide range of laser systems.
Q-switched lasers, gallium, optical fibre lasers, nonlinear media, nonlinear optics
0030-4018
239-243
Petropoulos, Periklis
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Dhanjal, Sukhminder
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Richardson, David J.
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Zheludev, Nikolay I.
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Petropoulos, Periklis
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Dhanjal, Sukhminder
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Richardson, David J.
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Zheludev, Nikolay I.
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Petropoulos, Periklis, Dhanjal, Sukhminder, Richardson, David J. and Zheludev, Nikolay I. (1999) Passive Q-switching of an Er3+:Yb3+ fiber laser with a fiberized liquefying gallium mirror. Optics Communications, 166 (1-6), 239-243. (doi:10.1016/S0030-4018(99)00280-1).

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We report a new technique for passive Q-switching of low-power lasers, which exploits nonlinear reflection from a liquefying gallium mirror. Self-start Q-switching has been achieved in an Er3+:Yb3+ fiber laser for circulating intracavity powers of only a few milliwatts. The laser produced a continuous train of pulses as short as 1µs at repetition rates of a few tens of kilohertz with peak powers of 0.5W. Due to the broadband reflective nature of the nonlinearity of gallium, the technique should be applicable to a wide range of laser systems.

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Published date: August 1999
Keywords: Q-switched lasers, gallium, optical fibre lasers, nonlinear media, nonlinear optics
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Local EPrints ID: 77798
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/77798
DOI: doi:10.1016/S0030-4018(99)00280-1
ISSN: 0030-4018
PURE UUID: db5e7bf3-1b9b-4278-bbb8-714212ba22db
ORCID for Periklis Petropoulos: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1576-8034
ORCID for David J. Richardson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7751-1058
ORCID for Nikolay I. Zheludev: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1013-6636

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Date deposited: 11 Mar 2010
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 02:41

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Author: Periklis Petropoulos ORCID iD
Author: Sukhminder Dhanjal
Author: David J. Richardson ORCID iD
Author: Nikolay I. Zheludev ORCID iD

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