A. Haque (AU) building 15, School of engineering and IT, UNSW canberra
building 15, School of engineering and IT, UNSW canberraAuthor Of 1 Presentation
(OFT) Optical Fiber Technology
MF4.6 - TWO TANTALUM BORIDES AS POTENTIAL SATURABLE ABSORBERS FOR Q-SWITCHED FIBER LASERS
Presentation Type
Contributed Submission
Authors
- K. As'Ham (AU) building 20, School of engineering and IT, UNSW canberra
- A. Haque (AU) building 15, School of engineering and IT, UNSW canberra
- Z. Li (AU) Department of Electronic Materials Engineering, Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University
- M. Morshed (AU) building 15, School of engineering and IT, UNSW canberra
- B. Olbricht (US) Coupled Optics LLC
- H. Hattori (AU) School of Eng and Info Tech, UNSW Canberra
Date
09/30/2019
Time
03:30 PM - 05:15 PM
Room
La Vista C
Duration
15 Minutes
Lecture Time
05:00 PM - 05:15 PM
Abstract
Abstract
We present the results for two tantalum borides (TaB and TaB2) as potential saturable absorbers for Q-switched lasers. When incorporated to a ring ytterbium laser operating at 1080 nm, they produced pulse widths as short as 345 ns.