Beilstein J. Nanotechnol.2019,10, 1065–1072, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.107
pulse duration of 55 ns, which is the shortest pulse duration published to date.
It is well-established that the RPR will increase with the increase in pump power when the device is in the Q-switching state [40][41][43][44][45][46]. In our results, we demonstrate that as the pump power is increased, the
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Diagram of the erbium-doped fiber laser with ring cavity and Fe3O4 nanoparticle saturable absorber.
Beilstein J. Nanotechnol.2018,9, 2730–2740, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.255
nanorods; Q-switching; saturable absorption; solid-state lasers; zinc oxide; Introduction
Zinc oxide (ZnO) is a well-known II–IV group wide-bandgap semiconductor (Eg = 3.37 eV), possessing a hexagonal wurtzite-type (sp. gr. P63mc) structure with unit cell parameters a = 3.25 Å, c = 5.20 Å. In recent years
with picosecond pulses resulting in Isat = 16 kW/cm2, which is close to our observations.
Passive Q-switching by ZnO nanorods
The laser experiments were performed with the NRs grown for 5 h, because they exhibited minimum insertion loss. Stable Q-switching was also observed for the NRs grown for 10 h
scaling of the laser in the PQS regime was limited by the Q-switching instabilities arising for Pabs > 3.2 W due to the heating of the SA by the residual (non-absorbed) pump [22].
The pulse duration Δτ, determined as full width at half maximum (FWHM) and the pulse repetition frequency (PRF) for the PQS
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Field emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM) images of ZnO nanorods grown hydrothermally on ...