Dissipative Soliton Mode-Locked Erbium-Doped Fiber Laser Using Nb2AlC Nanomaterial Saturable Absorber

Arni Munira Markom; Nurul Athirah Mohamad Abdul Ghafar; Malathy Batumalay; Yusrina Yusof; Ahmad Haziq Aiman Rosol; Nur Farhanah Zulkipli; Ahmad Razif Muhammad; Hazlihan Haris; Ismail Saad; Sulaiman Wadi Harun

doi:10.3390/nano13050810

Dissipative Soliton Mode-Locked Erbium-Doped Fiber Laser Using Nb₂AlC Nanomaterial Saturable Absorber

Nanomaterials (Basel). 2023 Feb 22;13(5):810. doi: 10.3390/nano13050810.

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¹ School of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam 40450, Selangor, Malaysia.
² Faculty of Data Science and IT, INTI International University, Nilai 71800, Selangor, Malaysia.
³ Department of Electronic Systems Engineering, Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Jalan Sultan Yahya, Kuala Lumpur 54100, Selangor, Malaysia.
⁴ Department of Engineering and Built Environment, Tunku Abdul Rahman University College (TARUC) Penang Branch Campus, Tanjong Bungah 11200, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia.
⁵ Institute of Microengineering and Nanoelectronics (IMEN), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Bangi 43600, Selangor, Malaysia.
⁶ Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS), Kota Kinabalu 88400, Sabah, Malaysia.
⁷ Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Selangor, Malaysia.

Abstract

We report the fabrication of an erbium-doped fiber-based saturable absorber (SA) of niobium aluminium carbide (Nb₂AlC) nanomaterial that can generate a dissipative soliton mode-locked pulse. Stable mode-locked pulses operating at 1530 nm with repetition rates of 1 MHz and pulse widths of 6.375 ps were produced using polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) and the Nb2AlC nanomaterial. A peak pulse energy of 7.43 nJ was measured at 175.87 mW pump power. In addition to providing some useful design suggestions for manufacturing SAs based on MAX phase materials, this work shows the MAX phase materials' immense potential for making ultra-short laser pulses.

Keywords: MAX phase saturable absorber; fiber laser; mode-locked; soliton.

Dissipative Soliton Mode-Locked Erbium-Doped Fiber Laser Using Nb₂AlC Nanomaterial Saturable Absorber

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