Tungsten trioxide nanocomposite for conventional soliton and noise-like pulse generation in anomalous dispersion laser cavity
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Abstract This work demonstrates the employment of tungsten trioxide/polydimethylsiloxane nanocomposite saturable absorber (WO 3 /PDMS-SA) in realizing mode-locked conventional soliton (CS) and noise-like pulse (NLP) laser generation in net anomalous dispersion. The switching formation from CS regime of 970.0 fs pulse duration to NLP regime of 182.0 fs coherent spike with 65.3 ps pedestal was achieved by varying its pump power. The pulse laser exhibited good stability of 50.76 and 49.82 dB signal-to-noise ratio at 9.09 MHz fundamental repetition rate and trivial variation during stability test for CS and NLP regime, respectively. This work expresses the feasibility of WO 3 /PDMS-SA in attaining various types of mode-locked pulse phenomena using a fixed cavity configuration conceivably beneficial for compact dual-purpose laser systems.
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OpenAlex topics: Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies · Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications · Solid State Laser Technologies
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Wireless and Photonics Networks Research Centre, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia , 43400 UPM Serdang , Selangor , Malaysia
State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University , Hangzhou 310027 , China
Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia , 43400 UPM Serdang , Selangor , Malaysia
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology , Jaipur , India
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Kota (MNIT Campus) , Jaipur , India
Department of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, King Saud University , P.O. Box 800 , Riyadh 11421 , Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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