Erbium-doped fiber laser passively mode locked with few-layer WSe2/MoSe2 nanosheets

Dong Mao; Xiaoyang She; Bobo Du; Dexing Yang; Wending Zhang; Kun Song; Xiaoqi Cui; Biqiang Jiang; Tao Peng; Jianlin Zhao

doi:10.1038/srep23583

Erbium-doped fiber laser passively mode locked with few-layer WSe2/MoSe2 nanosheets

Sci Rep. 2016 Mar 24:6:23583. doi: 10.1038/srep23583.

Authors

Dong Mao^{1

2}, Xiaoyang She^{1

2}, Bobo Du^{1

2}, Dexing Yang^{1

2}, Wending Zhang^{1

2}, Kun Song², Xiaoqi Cui^{1

2}, Biqiang Jiang^{1

2}, Tao Peng^{1

2}, Jianlin Zhao^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Optical Information Technology, School of Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China.
² Key Laboratory of Space Applied Physics and Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China.

Abstract

Few-layer transition-metal dichalcogenide WSe2/MoSe2 nanosheets are fabricated by a liquid exfoliation technique using sodium deoxycholate bile salt as surfactant, and their nonlinear optical properties are investigated based on a balanced twin-detector measurement scheme. It is demonstrated that both types of nanosheets exhibit nonlinear saturable absorption properties at the wavelength of 1.55 μm. By depositing the nanosheets on side polished fiber (SPF) or mixing the nanosheets with polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) solution, SPF-WSe2 saturable absorber (SA), SPF-MoSe2 SA, PVA-WSe2 SA, and PVA-MoSe2 SA are successfully fabricated and further tested in erbium-doped fiber lasers. The SPF-based SA is capable of operating at the high pump regime without damage, and a train of 3252.65 MHz harmonically mode-locked pulses are obtained based on the SPF-WSe2 SA. Soliton mode locking operations are also achieved in the fiber laser separately with other three types of SAs, confirming that the WSe2 and MoSe2 nanosheets could act as cost-effective high-power SAs for ultrafast optics.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't