Photonics Research, Volume. 6, Issue 9, 900(2018)

Antimonene: a long-term stable two-dimensional saturable absorption material under ambient conditions for the mid-infrared spectral region

Hongyu Luo1、†, Xiangling Tian2、†, Ying Gao1, Rongfei Wei3, Jianfeng Li1,5、*, Jianrong Qiu2,4,6、*, and Yong Liu1
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  • 1State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Films and Integrated Devices, School of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu 610054, China
  • 2State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices and School of Materials Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China
  • 3Department of Physics, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, China
  • 4State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
  • 5e-mail: lijianfeng@uestc.edu.cn
  • 6e-mail: qjr@zju.edu.cn
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    Images of (a) multi-layer antimonene dispersion and (b) multi-layer antimonene droplets on quartz substrate, CaF2 substrate, and Au mirror (from left to right).
    Material characterizations of the multi-layer antimonene sample: (a) low- and (b) high-magnification TEM images; (c) AFM image and (d) the corresponding height profile; (e) Raman and (f) XPS spectra.
    (a) Experimental setup of nonlinear absorption measurement at 2868.0 nm. (b) Transmittance of the multi-layer antimonene sample as a function of pulse peak intensity.
    Experiment setup of passively Q-switched Ho3+/Pr3+-codoped fluoride fiber laser using multi-layer antimonene as the SA.
    Q-switched trains and single pulse waveforms (insets) at the launched pump power of (a) 93.3 mW, (b) 358.6 mW, and (c) 489.0 mW. (d) Q-switched optical and RF (inset) spectra at the launched pump power of 489.0 mW.
    (a) Pulse duration and repetition rate and (b) output power and pulse energy as functions of the launched pump power.
    Evolution of Q-switched output power within 10 h at the launched pump power of ∼480 mW.
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    Hongyu Luo, Xiangling Tian, Ying Gao, Rongfei Wei, Jianfeng Li, Jianrong Qiu, Yong Liu, "Antimonene: a long-term stable two-dimensional saturable absorption material under ambient conditions for the mid-infrared spectral region," Photonics Res. 6, 900 (2018)

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    Paper Information

    Category: Materials

    Received: Jun. 5, 2018

    Accepted: Jul. 20, 2018

    Published Online: Sep. 5, 2018

    The Author Email: Jianfeng Li (lijianfeng@uestc.edu.cn), Jianrong Qiu (qjr@zju.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1364/PRJ.6.000900

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