Demonstration of multiple dissipative solitons with nickel-based metal organic framework saturable absorber

Mohd Adzir  Mahdi; Amir Murad; Norita  Mohd Yusoff; Josephine Ying Chyi Liew; Mohd Hanif  Yaacob

doi:10.53655/joe.g2252g

Authors

Mohd Adzir Mahdi 1Wireless and Photonics Network Research Centre, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
Amir Murad Wireless and Photonics Networks Research Centre, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8157-2550
Norita Mohd Yusoff Wireless and Photonics Network Research Centre, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2122-8664
Josephine Ying Chyi Liew Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1577-4773
Mohd Hanif Yaacob Wireless and Photonics Network Research Centre, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53655/joe.g2252g

Keywords:

Metal-organic framework, saturable absorber, dissipative soliton, pulse mode-locked laser

Abstract

In this work, we have demonstrated the generation of dissipative soliton from single to multi-pulsing phenomenon. The generation of ultrashort pulses was achieved with nickel-based metal organic framework (Ni-MOF) as saturable absorber in a ring cavity erbium-doped fiber laser. The SA was fabricated by spin-coating Ni-MOF/polydimethylsiloxane composite on a tapered fiber substrate, which had an insertion loss of 2.82 dB, a modulation depth of 4.61 %, and saturation intensity of 30.12 MW/cm². A self-started DS mode-locked pulse was observed at 1559.89 nm central wavelength with 3-dB bandwidth of 19.72 nm at threshold pump power of 33.5 mW. Its pulse width of 7.89 ps was recorded at 7.94 MHz repetition rate. The nature of pulse splitting was observed up to three pulses which were separated with 2.62 ns time spacing with the increment of pump power until 134.2 mW. The generated multiple dissipative soliton pulses realized in the laser cavity through Ni-MOF saturable absorber were stable and invariant for 1-hour stability measurement.

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