• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 6, Issue 10, C15 (2018)
Wenjun Liu1、2、3, Mengli Liu1, Hainian Han1, Shaobo Fang2, Hao Teng2, Ming Lei1、4, and Zhiyi Wei2、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, School of Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China
  • 2Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
  • 3e-mail: jungliu@bupt.edu.cn
  • 4e-mail: mlei@bupt.edu.cn
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.6.000C15 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Wenjun Liu, Mengli Liu, Hainian Han, Shaobo Fang, Hao Teng, Ming Lei, Zhiyi Wei. Nonlinear optical properties of WSe2 and MoSe2 films and their applications in passively Q-switched erbium doped fiber lasers[J]. Photonics Research, 2018, 6(10): C15 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are successfully applied in fiber lasers for their photoelectric properties. However, in previous work, how to improve the modulation depth of TMD-based saturable absorbers (SAs) has been a challenging issue. In this paper, WSe2 and MoSe2 SAs are fabricated with the chemical vapor deposition method. Compared with previous experiments, the modulation depths of WSe2 and MoSe2 SAs with sandwiched structures are effectively increased to 31.25% and 25.69%, respectively. The all-fiber passively Q-switched erbium doped fiber lasers based on WSe2 and MoSe2 SAs are demonstrated. The signal-to-noise ratios of those lasers are measured to be 72 and 57 dB, respectively. Results indicate that the proposed WSe2 and MoSe2 SAs are efficient photonic devices to realize stable fiber lasers.
    α(I)=αs1+I/Isat+αns,(1)

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    Wenjun Liu, Mengli Liu, Hainian Han, Shaobo Fang, Hao Teng, Ming Lei, Zhiyi Wei. Nonlinear optical properties of WSe2 and MoSe2 films and their applications in passively Q-switched erbium doped fiber lasers[J]. Photonics Research, 2018, 6(10): C15
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