We experimentally demonstrate the use of a high-speed, solid-state optical switch as an efficient Mid-IR Q-switch. The switch could be modulated upto 2.2 MHz and its rising and falling time were measured to be 160 ns and 140 ns, respectively. Using the optical switch, stable actively Q-switched pulses were readily generated from a thulium doped-fiber laser cavity. The minimum pulse width of the pulses was measured to be 160 ns at 100 kHz with the average output power of 0.5 mW.
We experimentally demonstrate a linearly polarized, passively Q-switched, erbium (Er)-doped fiber laser using a saturable absorber (SA) based on a composite consisting of a bulk-structured bismuth telluride (Bi2Te3) topological insulator (TI) and polyvinyl alcohol (PVA). The SA was constructed on a polarization maintaining (PM) fiber ferrule platform, which had a sandwich structure. Its saturation intensity and modulation depth were measured to be ∼47.56 MW/cm2 and ∼4.1%, respectively. Using the prepared Bi2Te3/PVA SA in a PM Er-doped fiber ring laser, stable Q-switched pulses with a degree of polarization of ∼98.6% and an azimuth angle of ∼−0.34 deg were demonstrated. The minimum pulse width was measured to be ∼1.58 μs at a repetition rate of 47.1 kHz. This experimental demonstration verifies that a thin film based on a bulk-structured Bi2Te3 TI can fit into a sandwich-structured SA based on PM fiber ferrules.
We experimentally demonstrate that a bulk-structured Bi2Te3 topological-insulator (TI)-based saturable absorber can be used with a dissipative soliton resonance based, nanosecond-pulse fiber laser. Our results show that temporal width-tunable, mode-locked pulses can readily be produced through the dissipative soliton resonance effect from an erbium-doped fiber ring cavity into which a bulk-structured Bi2Te3 TI-deposited, side-polished fiber has been incorporated. The temporal width of the output pulses was changeable from 2.7 to 12.8 ns with an increasing pump power, and the corresponding pulse energy increased linearly from 4.7 to 22.4 nJ. This paper reaffirms that a bulk-structured Bi2Te3 TI can be used as an effective material for saturable absorption, and that the material is readily applicable for different types of mode-locked fiber lasers.
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