Mode-locked ytterbium-doped fiber laser with zinc phthalocyanine thin film saturable absorber

Soboh RSM 1 , Al-Masoodi AHH 2 , Erman FNA 1 , Al-Masoodi AHH 3 , Nizamani B 1 , Arof H 1 Show all authors , Apsari R 4 , Wadi Harun S 5

Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, 50630, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 2 Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering Department, College of Engineering, The American University of Kurdistan, Duhok, 42001, Iraq
  • 3 Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 4 Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Airlangga University, 60115, Surabaya, Indonesia. retna-a@fst.unair.ac.id
  • 5 Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Malaya, 50630, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. swharun@um.edu.my
Front Optoelectron, 2022 Jun 13;15(1):28.
PMID: 36637608 DOI: 10.1007/s12200-022-00027-2

Abstract

A stable mode-locked laser was demonstrated using a newly developed zinc phthalocyanine (ZnPc) thin film as passive saturable absorber (SA) in ytterbium-doped fiber laser (YDFL). The ZnPc thin film was obtained using a casting method and then inserted between the two fiber ferrules of a YDFL ring cavity to generate mode-locked pulses. The resulting pulsed laser operated at a wavelength of 1034.5 nm having a repetition rate of 3.3 MHz. At pump power of 277 mW, the maximum output power and pulse energy are achieved at 4.92 mW and 1.36 nJ, respectively. ZnPc has a high chemical and photochemical stability, and its significance for use as a potential SA in a mode-locked laser is reported in this work.

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