Abstract
We demonstrate a passive Q-switched thulium-doped fibre laser (TDFL) pulse generation using bismuth (III) telluride (Bi2Te3) thin film as saturable absorber. The Bi2Te3 was fabricated by a simple processing technique; simply by embedding the Bi2Te3 into the polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) film. By sandwiching 1 mm x 1 mm Bi2Te3 thin film between two fibre ferrules in a TDFL ring cavity, a stable Q-switching pulses train was generated. The repetition rate and pulse width were tuneable from 10.72 kHz to 39.9 kHz and 13.08 µs to 5.98 µs, respectively, as the pump power increased from 309 mW to 454 mW. The slope efficiency was 4.51%, while, the maximum pulse energy was calculated as 0.17 µJ.
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