We investigate the saturable absorption properties of Bi2Se3 in a bulk laser operating at 2 µm wavelength region. The Bi2Se3 saturable absorber (SA) is prepared with the liquid-phase exfoliation method, which gives a saturable input flux of 4.3 mJ/cm2, a modulation depth of ∼10%, and a non-saturable absorption of 10.2%. With the Bi2Se3 saturable absorber, a passive Q-witching Tm:YAG ceramic laser is realized with a shortest pulse duration of 355 ns, a single pulse energy of 6.76 µJ and peak power of 19 W. We believe that this is the first report on Bi2Se3 Q-switched 2 µm bulk laser.
We propose a high-power, noise-like pulse (NLP), Tm-doped fiber oscillator applying the nonlinear polarization rotation method. The repetition rate is 12.94 MHz resulting in a pulse energy of 75.7 nJ. The emitted mode-locking spectrum can be tuned from 1885 nm to 1949 nm in a 64 nm spectral range. A theoretical model is built to illustrate the NLP dynamics and its boundary conditions with a soliton pulse inside the 2 μm fiber ring cavity. The corresponding simulation results match well with our experimental results.
We demonstrate a monolayer MoS2-based saturable absorber (SA) synthesized by chemical vapor deposition (CVD). The as-grown SA has high spatial homogeneity and shows excellent saturable absorption properties in the 2 µm wavelength region. A higher modulation depth of 21.3% and lower saturation intensity of 0.47 MW/cm2 are achieved compared with those of other documented MoS2 SAs to date. When applying the MoS2 SA to a Tm:YAG ceramic laser, we observe a Q-switched pulse train with a shortest pulse duration of 388.0 ns under a pulse repetition rate of 82 kHz, which corresponds to a single pulse energy of 5.4 uJ and a peak power of 14 W. We believe that CVD constitutes an effective method towards high-quality MoS2 saturable absorbers that possess remarkable application potential in the 2 µm wavelength region.
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