Passively Q-switched tri-wavelength Yb3+:GdAl3(BO3)4 solid-state laser with topological insulator Bi2Te3 as saturable absorber

Yi-Jian Sun; Chao-Kuei Lee; Jin-Long Xu; Zhao-Jie Zhu; Ye-Qing Wang; Shu-Fang Gao; Hou-Ping Xia; Zhen-Yu You; Chao-Yang Tu

doi:10.1364/PRJ.3.000A97

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Photonics Research
Vol. 3, Issue 3, A97 (2015)

Passively Q-switched tri-wavelength Yb³⁺:GdAl₃(BO₃)₄ solid-state laser with topological insulator Bi₂Te₃ as saturable absorber

Yi-Jian Sun^1、2, Chao-Kuei Lee³, Jin-Long Xu¹, Zhao-Jie Zhu¹, Ye-Qing Wang⁴, Shu-Fang Gao^1、2, Hou-Ping Xia^1、2, Zhen-Yu You¹, and Chao-Yang Tu^1、*

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¹Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials Chemistry and Physics of CAS, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, CAS, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, China

²University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China

³Department of Photonics, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

⁴Department of Applied Physics, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang, Jiangxi 330013, China

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Yi-Jian Sun, Chao-Kuei Lee, Jin-Long Xu, Zhao-Jie Zhu, Ye-Qing Wang, Shu-Fang Gao, Hou-Ping Xia, Zhen-Yu You, Chao-Yang Tu. Passively Q-switched tri-wavelength Yb³⁺:GdAl₃(BO₃)₄ solid-state laser with topological insulator Bi₂Te₃ as saturable absorber[J]. Photonics Research, 2015, 3(3): A97 Copy Citation Text

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$(a) XRD diffraction pattern. (b) TEM image. Inset shows the corresponding SAED pattern of the as-grown Bi2Te3 nanosheets. The scale bar is 200 nm.$

Fig. 1. (a) XRD diffraction pattern. (b) TEM image. Inset shows the corresponding SAED pattern of the as-grown Bi2Te3 nanosheets. The scale bar is 200 nm.

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Fig. 2. Saturable absorption characteristic at 1.0 μm for three SA samples.

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Fig. 3. Schematic experimental setup of the Q-switched Yb3+:GAB solid-state laser with TI SA.

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Fig. 4. (a) Average output power as a function of absorbed pump power. (b) Evolution of pulse repetition rate with absorbed pump powers. (c) Evolution of pulsewidth with absorbed pump powers. (d) Evolution of pulse energy with absorbed pump powers.

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Fig. 5. 370 ns pulse profile and pulse trains.

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Fig. 6. Laser spectra of the 370 ns pulse laser.

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