Fiber-integrated tungsten disulfide saturable absorber (mirror) for pulsed fiber lasers

Chen, Hao; Li, Irene Ling; Ruan, Shuangchen; Guo, Tuan; Yan, Peiguang

doi:10.1117/1.oe.55.8.081318

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“…In pulsed laser deposition (PLD) technology, 50,75 the high‐energy pulses strike the solid target, and the material is separated from the target to form a plasma plume, after which the molten material transfer to the substrate surface, film nucleation and formation were finally formed on the surface of the substrate. The deposition rate of this preparation method is high and the prepared film is uniform.…”

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“…This kind of photonic device with 2D materials and optical fiber structure is called SAs. So far, there have been some effective coupling structures, which can be roughly divided into several types as shown in Figure 75,119,123–126. In Figure 10a, 2D materials are directly filled the hollow channel of the photonic crystal fiber, which ensures sufficient material‐light reaction.…”

Section: The Optical Properties Of 2d Materialsmentioning

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confidence: 99%

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The explosive success of graphene opens a new era of ultrathin 2D materials. It has been realized that the van der Waals layered materials with atomic and less atomic thickness can not only exist stably, but also exhibit unique and technically useful properties including small size effect, surface effect, macro quantum tunnel effect, and quantum effect. With the extensive research and revealing of the basic optical properties and new photophysical properties of 2D materials, a series of potential applications in optical devices have been continuously demonstrated and realized, which immediately roused an upsurge of study in the academic circle. Therefore, the application of 2D materials as broadband, efficient, convenient, and versatile saturable absorbers in ultrafast lasers is a potential and promising field. Herein, the main preparation methods of 2D materials are reviewed and technical guidelines for identifying and characterizing layered 2D materials are provided. After investigating the characteristics of 2D materials thoroughly in nonlinear optics, their performances in fiber lasers are comprehensively summarized according to the types of materials. Finally, some developmental challenges, potential prospects, and future research directions are summarized and presented for such promising materials.

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“…Another sophisticated way for creating thin films is pulsed laser deposition (PLD) which ablates materials by focuses a high-energy laser. [106,107] Several deposition parameters are adjusted to control film thickness and desired SA properties. [108] The deposition of the TI film features strong nonlinear optical response and large function length.…”

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2D Materials for Nonlinear Photonics and Electro‐Optical Applications

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Jiang

Huang

et al. 2021

Adv Materials Inter

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that satisfy the growing needs for compact, small foot-print, highly efficient and broadband photonic and optoelectronic devices. In other words, the development between SA technologies and lasers is almost isochronous. By 1983, several mode-locked fiber lasers with actively doped fiber amplifiers were demonstrated largely driven by improvements in low-loss optical fibers. However, mode-locking with a dye SA was unstable in Nd:fibers at the time. [5] The early 1990s saw the semiconductor SA mirror (SESAM) invention which was a milestone in the realization of stable passive mode-locked pulses [6,7] and stable Q-switching. However, SESAM progress was impeded by the narrow operation bandwidth, challenging fabrication process, slow relaxation time and most importantly a weak mid-infrared (mid-IR) response. By contrast, 2D nanomaterials can possess shorter relaxation times with a highly efficient broadband response covering even the mid-IR. The fabrication methods, nonlinear optical properties and applications in optics, biomedicine, and other fields of 2D materials are shown in Figure 1. 2D materials are now the spotlight of SA research applications because of these unique properties along with stable quantum confinement, higher mechanical stability, and an inherently small-footprint. [8][9][10] Graphene has been a breakthrough 2D NLO material for a wide range of topics such as broadband optical modulation, [11] optical frequency mixing, [12] ultrafast laser generation, [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] and surface plasmonic. [21] Nevertheless, the development of this material is still limited to some extent [22] due to its innate gapless band structure and the weak electronic on/off ratio. Topological insulators (TIs) reveal a large modulation depth. However, the fabrication of TIs is complicated because of their two elements composition. [23][24][25] Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are unusable in the mid-IR region because of their large bandgaps. [26] In Group-VA monoelemental materials, black phosphorus (BP) is famous for the characteristic layer number dependent bandgap. [27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35] However, monolayer or fewlayer BP lacks of chemical stability at ambient conditions. [36,37] In addition, another Group-VA material, semiconducting antimonene, is relatively stable under ambient environment with a wide bandgap. [38] Bulk antimonene has great potential to become a TI as well as quantum spin Hall phase producer when the number of layers is under 22, respectively. [39] On top of this, antimonene is very chemically stable. It has good thermal conductivity, [40] high mobility, [41] excellent thermoelectric figure of merit, [42] and good optical properties, [43][44][45][46] which 2D materials have received significant attention from the scientific community due to their unique structures and excellent physical properties. A lot of applications are explored based on graphene, topological insulators, and transition metal dichalcogenides. With further development of 2D materials, other Group-VA...

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“…In view of the reported works, as a modelocking result obtained with an actual SA, 213 fs is a short pulse width. [43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50] The generation of the wide-bandwidth pulse can be attributed to the small net dispersion of the laser cavity. In the experiment, the length of DCF was set to be constant.…”

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Generation of wide-bandwidth pulse with graphene saturable absorber based on tapered fiber

Zhang¹,

Wang²,

Liao³

et al. 2019

Chinese Phys. B

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Wide-bandwidth pulses were generated with a dispersion-managed erbium-doped passively mode-locked fiber laser based on a graphene saturable absorber. The graphene saturable absorber was composed of a tapered fiber deposited with graphene fabricated by liquid-phase exfoliation. The output pulse had a 3-dB bandwidth of 13.6 nm, which is the widest spectrum ever achieved with graphene-tapered-fiber saturable absorbers.

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Fiber-integrated tungsten disulfide saturable absorber (mirror) for pulsed fiber lasers

Cited by 28 publications

References 101 publications

Recent Advances of 2D Materials in Nonlinear Photonics and Fiber Lasers

Recent Advances of 2D Materials in Nonlinear Photonics and Fiber Lasers

2D Materials for Nonlinear Photonics and Electro‐Optical Applications

Generation of wide-bandwidth pulse with graphene saturable absorber based on tapered fiber

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