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Chin. Phys. B, 2018, Vol. 27(9): 094219    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/27/9/094219
Special Issue: SPECIAL TOPIC — Nanophotonics
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Femtosecond Tm-Ho co-doped fiber laser using a bulk-structured Bi2Se3 topological insulator

Jinho Lee(李珍昊), Ju Han Lee(李周翰)
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Seoul, Seoul 02504, Republic of Korea
Abstract  

We experimentally demonstrate a femtosecond mode-locked thulium-holmium (Tm-Ho) co-doped fiber laser incorporating a saturable absorber (SA) based on a bulk-structured bismuth selenide (Bi2Se3) topological insulator (TI). The SA was prepared by depositing a mechanically exfoliated Bi2Se3 TI layer onto a side-polished optical fiber platform. Unlike high-quality nano-structured Bi2Se3 TI-based SA, bulk-structured Bi2Se3 with non-negligible oxidation was used as a saturable absorption material for this experimental demonstration due to its easy fabrication process. The saturation power and modulation depth of the prepared SA were measured to be ~28.6 W and ~13.4%, respectively. By incorporating the prepared SA into a Tm-Ho co-doped fiber ring cavity, stable soliton pulses with a temporal width of ~853 fs could be generated at 1912.12 nm. The 3-dB bandwidth of the mode-locked pulse was measured to be ~4.87 nm. This experimental demonstration reaffirms that Bi2Se3 is a superb base material for mid-infrared passive mode-locking even under oxidation.

Keywords:  topological insulator      mode-locked lasers      femtosecond pulse      fiber lasers  
Received:  24 May 2018      Revised:  30 July 2018      Accepted manuscript online: 
PACS:  42.55.Wd (Fiber lasers)  
  42.60.Fc (Modulation, tuning, and mode locking)  
  42.65.-k (Nonlinear optics)  
  42.70.Mp (Nonlinear optical crystals)  
Fund: 

Project supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) Grant Funded by the Korea Government (MSIT), Republic of Korea (Grant No. NRF-2018R1A2B6001641), Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) under the Information Technology Research Center (ITRC) Support Program (Grant No. ⅡTP-2018-2015-0-00385), and supervised by the Institute for Information and Communications Technology Promotion (ⅡTP).

Corresponding Authors:  Ju Han Lee     E-mail:  j.h.lee@ieee.org

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Jinho Lee(李珍昊), Ju Han Lee(李周翰) Femtosecond Tm-Ho co-doped fiber laser using a bulk-structured Bi2Se3 topological insulator 2018 Chin. Phys. B 27 094219

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