In this paper, a responsiveness temperature based on a tunable dual-wavelength Q-switched fiber laser has been proposed and experimentally demonstrated. Experiments have been carried out with tunable dual-wavelength Q-switched fiber laser by using graphite as a saturable absorber, which is incorporated in the two fiber Bragg gratings (FBG) as a sensing element. Both FBG 1 and FBG 2 have a central wavelength of 1550 nm and 1551 nm, respectively. The optical spectral and RF signals are proven observed during the temperature change. The results from optical spectra demonstrate the measured temperature has good linearity, where the slope of the graph is thus the temperature sensitivity of 1550 nm FBG. The R2 value of the graph is 0.965 and the value of temperature sensitivity is 0.0064 nm °C−1. For FBG 2 as the sensing element, the R2 value of the graph is 0.9751 and the value of temperature sensitivity is 0.0068 nm °C−1. In addition, the repetition rate is almost linear with the temperature change, giving the correlation factor of R2 value of FBG 1 and FBG 2 are 0.8118 and 0.9046, respectively. The experimental results prove the feasibility of the proposed temperature sensor.
We successfully investigated the influence of thickness on the tunability performance of plasma-sputtered indium tin oxide (ITO) as a Q-switcher. ITO is coated using direct current magnetron sputtering techniques with sputtering times of 150 s, 250 s, and 350 s to generate excellent quality ITO. Filmetrics measures the thickness, yielding 17.80 nm, 30.70 nm, and 38.90 nm, respectively. A stable Q-switched pulse is achieved at an operating wavelength and peak power of 1562.30 nm and −6.47 dBm for the thickness of 17.80 nm, 1561.40 nm and −3.19 dBm for the thickness of 30.70 nm, and 1560.2 nm and −2.44 dBm for the thickness of 38.90 nm. The thickness of 38.90 nm exhibit a high repetition rate of 43.60 kHz and narrow pulse width of 4.83 µs compared to other thickness. Employing the tunable bandpass filter in the laser ring cavity gives the wide-tuning of the wavelength range of 19.69 nm, 31.86 nm, and 36.59 nm for the thickness of 17.80 nm, 30.70 nm, and 38.90 nm, respectively. The tunability of Q-switched with the thicknesses of 30.70 nm and 38.90 nm is realized in the region of C-band to L-band. Regarding the authors’ expertise, this seems to be the first proposed influence of thickness on the tunability of plasma sputtered ITO that serves as saturable absorber in a Q-switched pulse.
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