Frontiers of Optoelectronics, Volume. 13, Issue 2, 139(2020)
Highly stable and repeatable femtosecond soliton pulse generation from saturable absorbers based on two-dimensional Cu3-xP nanocrystals
Heavily doped colloidal plasmonic nanocrystals have attracted great attention because of their lower and adjustable free carrier densities and tunable localized surface plasmonic resonance bands in the spectral range from near-infra to mid-infra wavelengths. With its plasmon-enhanced optical nonlinearity, this new family of plasmonic materials shows a huge potential for nonlinear optical applications, such as ultrafast switching, nonlinear sensing, and pulse laser generation. Cu3-xP nanocrystals were previously shown to have a strong saturable absorption at the plasmonic resonance, which enabled high-energy Q-switched fiber lasers with 6.1 μs pulse duration. This work demonstrates that both highquality mode-locked and Q-switched pulses at 1560 nm can be generated by evanescently incorporating twodimensional (2D) Cu3-xP nanocrystals onto a D-shaped optical fiber as an effective saturable absorber. The 3 dB bandwidth of the mode-locking optical spectrum is as broad as 7.3 nm, and the corresponding pulse duration can reach 423 fs. The repetition rate of the Q-switching pulses is higher than 80 kHz. Moreover, the largest pulse energy is more than 120 μJ. Note that laser characteristics are highly stable and repeatable based on the results of over 20 devices. This work may trigger further investigations on heavily doped plasmonic 2D nanocrystals as a next-generation, inexpensive, and solution-processed element for fascinating photonics and optoelectronics applications.
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Haoran MU, Zeke LIU, Xiaozhi BAO, Zhichen WAN, Guanyu LIU, Xiangping LI, Huaiyu SHAO, Guichuan XING, Babar SHABBIR, Lei LI, Tian SUN, Shaojuan LI, Wanli MA, Qiaoliang BAO. Highly stable and repeatable femtosecond soliton pulse generation from saturable absorbers based on two-dimensional Cu3-xP nanocrystals[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2020, 13(2): 139
Category: RESEARCH ARTICLE
Received: Feb. 27, 2020
Accepted: Jun. 5, 2020
Published Online: Nov. 25, 2020
The Author Email: LIU Guanyu (liuguanyu@jnu.edu.cn)