Laser Raman à fibra operando na banda O em regime de acoplamento passivo de modos utilizando nanotubos de carbono como absorvedores saturáveis

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Steinberg, David
• Orientador(a): Souza, Eunézio Antônio de
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
• Palavras-chave em Português: laser Raman à fibra; acoplamento passivo de modos; banda O; absorvedores saturáveis; nanotubos de carbono
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Raman fiber laser; passive mode-locking; O-band; saturable absorbers; carbon nanotubes
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::ENGENHARIAS::ENGENHARIA ELETRICA
• Link de acesso: http://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/24267

In this thesis, for the first time we present results of passively-mode-locking O-band Raman fiber laser operating at 1310 nm by using carbon nanotubes as saturable absorber. The first results were obtained for an experimental setup based on single mode fiber (SMF) with laser operating near zero fiber dispersion at 1310 nm at anomalous regime. In this same configuration, a study of pulse duration shortening in terms of intracavity dispersion management with dispersion shifted fiber lengths (DSF) was performed. Replacing the SMF by a highly doped germanium fiber as gain medium of Raman fiber laser, operation was shifted to normal dispersion regime and passive mode-locking was also generated. In this laser, a study of pulse duration shortening in terms of gain medium length reduction was performed and the picosecond pulse regime of the laser could be estimated. We also present a brief comparison between the two dispersion regimes of the Raman fiber laser and passive mode-locking results obtained with different diameters of carbon nanotubes as saturable absorbers.