Femtosecond Tm-Ho co-doped fiber laser using a bulk-structured Bi2Se3 topological insulator

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/27/9/094219

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
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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)

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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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