Tunable narrow linewidth Tm<sup>3+</sup>-doped silica fiber laser with an intracavity taper

Zhang, Y.; Tian, Yuqi; Wang, W.; Yao, Baoquan

doi:10.1002/lapl.200910123

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“…Tm 3+ -doped fiber lasers (TDFLs) at 2 μm have received wide research interests in recent years due to their valuable applications in sensing, medical surgery, industrial machining and scientific experiments [1,2]. To meet these application requirements, high-peak-power and/or high-energy 2 µm laser pulses are needed, which are generally produced by using Q-switching [3,4] or mode-locking [5,6] methods.…”

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Mode-locked thulium fiber laser with MoS₂

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Liquid-phase exfoliated 2D material multilayer MoS 2 is transferred onto a gold mirror and its saturable absorption at the 2 µm wavelength region is experimentally observed. This transferred MoS 2 saturable absorber has a modulation depth of 13.6% and a saturation intensity of 23.1 MW cm −2 . This saturable absorber is integrated into a linear Tm 3+ fiber laser cavity, and stable fundamental-frequency mode-locking operation is realized at 2 µm with pulse energy of 15.5 nJ, pulse width of ~843 ps, and a repetition rate of 9.67 MHz. The laser spectral width is ~17.3 nm with a center wavelength of 1905 nm. This first presence of modelocking with multilayer MoS 2 sheets in the 2 µm wavelength region verifies that multilayer MoS 2 is a good candidate for broadband mode-locking comparable to graphene, as well as a good mode-locker for achieving high pulse energy.

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Mode-locked thulium fiber laser with MoS₂

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“…Being named "eye-safe" lasers, TDFL shave found wide applications in remote sensing, LIDAR, industrial machining, frequency conversion, and biomedicine [1][2][3]. However, some applications require high peak power and high pulse energy 2 μm laser beams, which cannot be steadily obtained from TDFLs, owing to the lack of high-power modulation elements in this wavelength region.…”

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High-power passively Q-switched thulium fiber laser with distributed stimulated Brillouin scattering

Tang

Wang

2013

Opt. Lett.

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We report a novel passively Q-switched 2 μm Tm(3+) fiber laser simply by distributed stimulated Brillouin scattering with an all-fiber configuration. The maximum output power is 2.49 W with an optical-to-optical slope efficiency of 12%, and the laser wavelength is centered at ~1991 nm with a spectral width of >10 nm. The single pulse energy can be over 50 μJ with a pulse width of about 20 ns, and the pulse repetition rate can be tuned from several kilohertz to tens of kilohertz by changing the pump power. To the best of our knowledge, this is the highest-average-power passively Q-switched 2 μm Tm(3+) fiber laser in the nanosecond regime.

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“…materials Although 2 μm Tm 3+ −doped fiber lasers (TDFLs) have valuable applications in sensing, medical surgery, industrial machining, and scientific experiments [68,69], applications require high-peak-power and/or high-energy laser pulses, which are generally produced by using Q-switching [45,70] or mode-locking [43,44] methods. Compared with Q-switching, modelocking can provide much narrower pulse duration and higher peak power.…”

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Developing High-Energy Dissipative Soliton 2 μm Tm3+-Doped Fiber Lasers

Tang¹,

Huang²,

Xu³

2018

High Power Laser Systems

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In recent years, mid-infrared (mid-IR) lasers have attracted a great interest over the world. During the development of mid-IR laser sources, the 2 μm Tm 3+ -doped fiber laser (TDFL) has played an important role for its specific emission wavelength between near-IR and mid-IR. Its great potential applications include sensing, medical surgery, ranging, telecommunications, and pump sources for developing 3-5 μm laser systems. Though the continuous-wave (CW) output power of 2 μm TDFLs has been scaled to over 1000 W, high-pulse-energy ultrafast 2 μm TDFLs are still limited by nonlinear optical effects. In traditional soliton mode-locking, the pulse energy has an upper limit defined by the soliton area theorem (or energy quantization principle). For improving the pulse energy of 2 μm fiber lasers, dissipative soliton (DS) mode-locking may be one of the efficient solutions. In this chapter, the current state of the art in high-energy ultrafast DS 2 μm TDFLs developed in our laboratory is reviewed, and the potential and prospect of this theme are analyzed. By introducing a new model, condensed-gain fiber mode-locking, we show that the soliton pulse energy of 2 μm TDFLs can be steadily scaled to over 10 nJ and various soliton dynamics (harmonic mode-locking, soliton molecules, etc.) can be observed. Furthermore, DS mode-locking of TDFLs with one of the two-dimension-like materials (MoS 2 ) is investigated.

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Tunable narrow linewidth Tm³⁺-doped silica fiber laser with an intracavity taper

Cited by 28 publications

References 22 publications

Mode-locked thulium fiber laser with MoS₂

Mode-locked thulium fiber laser with MoS₂

High-power passively Q-switched thulium fiber laser with distributed stimulated Brillouin scattering

Developing High-Energy Dissipative Soliton 2 μm Tm3+-Doped Fiber Lasers

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Tunable narrow linewidth Tm3+-doped silica fiber laser with an intracavity taper

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Mode-locked thulium fiber laser with MoS2

Mode-locked thulium fiber laser with MoS2

High-power passively Q-switched thulium fiber laser with distributed stimulated Brillouin scattering

Developing High-Energy Dissipative Soliton 2 μm Tm3+-Doped Fiber Lasers

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Tunable narrow linewidth Tm³⁺-doped silica fiber laser with an intracavity taper

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