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

Hongyu Luo; Xiangling Tian; Ying Gao; Rongfei Wei; Jianfeng Li; Jianrong Qiu; Yong Liu

doi:10.1364/PRJ.6.000900

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Photonics Research
Vol. 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 Luo^1、†, Xiangling Tian^2、†, Ying Gao¹, Rongfei Wei³, Jianfeng Li^1、5、*, Jianrong Qiu^{2、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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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[J]. Photonics Research, 2018, 6(9): 900 Copy Citation Text

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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).

Fig. 1. 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).

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Fig. 2. 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.

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Fig. 3. (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.

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Fig. 4. Experiment setup of passively Q-switched Ho3+/Pr3+-codoped fluoride fiber laser using multi-layer antimonene as the SA.

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Fig. 5. 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.

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Fig. 6. (a) Pulse duration and repetition rate and (b) output power and pulse energy as functions of the launched pump power.

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Fig. 7. Evolution of Q-switched output power within 10 h at the launched pump power of ∼480 mW.

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