High Power Laser and Particle Beams, Volume. 35, Issue 3, 031002(2023)

All-fiber mode-locked laser using platinum film-coated microfiber

Shulin Zhang, Guoli Zhu, and Guangyan Dong
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  • The 27th Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, Zhengzhou 450047, China
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    In this paper, the finite element method is used to simulate the energy, electric field and effective refractive index changes of the modes in the microfiber before and after coating. The transmission characteristics of HE11, TE01, HE21 and TM01 modes in the microfiber and the interaction principle with the platinum film are analyzed. The microfiber was fabricated by etching the optical fiber with buffer oxide etchant, and the platinum film was coated by ion sputtering to obtain a microfiber device with a diameter of 13.2 μm and a platinum film thickness of 40 nm. Its saturable absorption properties were tested, the modulation depth and saturation intensity were 0.57% and 0.8 MW/cm2, respectively. An all-fiber mode-locked laser was fabricated, its mode-locked threshold is 180 mW. The mode-locked pulse repetition rate is 17.93 MHz, the pulse width is 103 ps, the center wavelength is 1031.6 nm, and the full width at half maximum is 3.5 nm.

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    Shulin Zhang, Guoli Zhu, Guangyan Dong. All-fiber mode-locked laser using platinum film-coated microfiber[J]. High Power Laser and Particle Beams, 2023, 35(3): 031002

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    Paper Information

    Category: High Power Laser Physics and Technology

    Received: Aug. 26, 2022

    Accepted: Nov. 9, 2022

    Published Online: Mar. 9, 2023

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    DOI:10.11884/HPLPB202335.220263

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