Watt-Level Continuous-Wave Mode-Locked Nd:YVO4 Laser With ReSe2 Saturable Absorber

Yuchen Xue; Li Li; Bin Zhang; Ruoxing Wang; Jinhui Cui; Fengjun Tian; Jianzhong Zhang

doi:10.1109/JPHOT.2020.3022800

IEEE Photonics Journal (Jan 2020)

Watt-Level Continuous-Wave Mode-Locked Nd:YVO4 Laser With ReSe2 Saturable Absorber

Yuchen Xue,
Li Li,
Bin Zhang,
Ruoxing Wang,
Jinhui Cui,
Fengjun Tian,
Jianzhong Zhang

Affiliations

Yuchen Xue: Key Laboratory of In-Fiber Integrated Optics of Ministry of Education, and College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China
Li Li: ORCiD; Key Laboratory of In-Fiber Integrated Optics of Ministry of Education, and College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China
Bin Zhang: Key Laboratory of In-Fiber Integrated Optics of Ministry of Education, and College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China
Ruoxing Wang: ORCiD; Key Laboratory of In-Fiber Integrated Optics of Ministry of Education, and College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China
Jinhui Cui: Key Laboratory of In-Fiber Integrated Optics of Ministry of Education, and College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China
Fengjun Tian: ORCiD; Key Laboratory of In-Fiber Integrated Optics of Ministry of Education, and College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China
Jianzhong Zhang: ORCiD; Key Laboratory of In-Fiber Integrated Optics of Ministry of Education, and College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOT.2020.3022800
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 5
pp. 1 – 10

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We report a ReSe2 passively mode-locked composite YVO4/Nd:YVO4 laser at 1.06 μm, which can stably generate pure continuous-wave mode-locking (CWML) operation at watt-level output. ReSe2, as a new type of 2-D transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), has the features of weak-layered dependence, broadband saturable absorption, low modulation depth and saturation intensity, which is beneficial to initiate robust CWML mechanism via nonlinear saturable absorption. By employing few-layered ReSe2 as saturable absorber, the nanosecond mode-locked pulses at fundamental repetition rate of 90.37 MHz was obtained experimentally in a composite YVO4/Nd:YVO4 laser. The maximum output power in pure CWML operation was as high as 1.1 W. The high-power CWML laser source shows potential applications in time-resolved spectroscopy, telecommunication and detection.

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ISSN: 1943-0655 (Online)
Publisher: IEEE
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Technology: Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General): Applied optics. Photonics; Science: Physics: Optics. Light
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