• Frontiers of Optoelectronics
  • Vol. 13, Issue 2, 139 (2020)
Haoran MU1, Zeke LIU2, Xiaozhi BAO3, Zhichen WAN1, Guanyu LIU4、*, Xiangping LI4, Huaiyu SHAO3, Guichuan XING3, Babar SHABBIR1, Lei LI5, Tian SUN2, Shaojuan LI2, Wanli MA2, and Qiaoliang BAO1
Author Affiliations
  • 1Department of Materials Science and Engineering and ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies (FLEET), Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia
  • 2Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials and Devices, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China
  • 3Joint Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education, Institute of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering (IAPME), University of Macau, Macau, China
  • 4Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optical Fiber Sensing and Communications, Institute of Photonics Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
  • 5Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Laser Materials and Devices, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Laser Technology and Emerging Industry, School of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou 221116, China
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    DOI: 10.1007/s12200-020-1018-y Cite this Article
    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 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    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.
    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
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