Conventional solitons (CSs) as well as bound-state solitons in a passively mode-locked erbium-doped fiber (EDF) laser based on 1 T-phase titanium diselenide (1 T-TiSe 2 ) saturable absorber (SA) have been systematically demonstrated for the first time. The mode locker is assembled by sandwiching the 1 T-TiSe 2 film between two fiber ferrules to improve compatibility with the all-fiber-integrated ring cavity configuration. The modulation depth, saturation intensity and nonsaturable loss of the prepared 1 T-TiSe 2 SA are 14.36%, 1.33 MW cm −2 and 9.44%, respectively. The system is switchable between two states: CS and bound-state CS, by carefully adjusting the orientations of the polarization controller (PC). In the CS mode-locked regime, the oscillating wavelength is centered at 1558.294 nm with a pulse duration of 1.74 ps, a pulse repetition rate of 3.23 MHz and a maximum average output power of 2.904 mW. In the bound-state CS regime, two identical solitons form the bound-state pulses with a temporal separation of 6.1 ps, and the bound-state pulses are equally distributed at a repetition rate of 3.23 MHz, corresponding to the fundamental cavity repetition rate. The experimental results further indicate that 1 T-TiSe 2 SA is competitive with the existing SAs explored so far and will promote the applications of 1 T-TiSe 2 -based SAs in the field of ultrafast lasers.
The effect of Ce substitution at the A-site on the properties of Na0.5Bi4.5Ti4O15 (NBT)–based ceramics was systematically investigated. The substitution at A-site caused distortion of lattice and improved piezoelectric activity correspondingly. The piezoelectric coefficient d33 of the Na0.5Bi4.5-xCexTi4O15 (x=0.03) ceramic was found to be as high as 26 pC/N, together with high mechanical quality factor Q ( 2769 ), and stable piezoelectric properties, demonstrating that the Ce-modified NBT-based materials are promising candidates for high-temperature applications.
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