Semiconducting Polymer Dots as Saturable Absorbers for Mode-Locked Thulium-Doped Fiber Lasers
We demonstrated an all-fiber passively mode-locked thulium-doped fiber laser (TDFL) using organic semiconducting polymer dots (Pdots) based saturable absorber (SA). The Pdots are prepared by methods of donor-acceptor moieties and reprecipitation, which possess a broadband absorption from 400 to 2200...
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| description | We demonstrated an all-fiber passively mode-locked thulium-doped fiber laser (TDFL) using organic semiconducting polymer dots (Pdots) based saturable absorber (SA). The Pdots are prepared by methods of donor-acceptor moieties and reprecipitation, which possess a broadband absorption from 400 to 2200 nm and nonlinear saturable absorption property at 2 μm. By depositing the Pdots onto the microfiber as an SA, long nonlinear interaction length of evanescent wave and Pots can be achieved. An ultrafast fiber laser operating at 1926 nm was observed. The output power could reach to 76.2 mW at the maximum pump power of 2.1 W. Compared with Pdot-film SAs in our previous work, these experimental results verify that PdotSAs functioned with evanescent field interaction are promising nonlinear optical modulators for ultrafast and high-power pulse generation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9cf69c826b74449ab182e829d9c2fb592022-12-21T17:26:08ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362020-01-01816980416980910.1109/ACCESS.2020.30240079195841Semiconducting Polymer Dots as Saturable Absorbers for Mode-Locked Thulium-Doped Fiber LasersFang Wang0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3812-1866Yue Sun1Xuenan Zhang2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3629-4392Shuguang Li3https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6233-2105Tonglei Cheng4https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2869-0771State Key Laboratory of Synthetical Automation for Process Industries, College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Synthetical Automation for Process Industries, College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Synthetical Automation for Process Industries, College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Synthetical Automation for Process Industries, College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Synthetical Automation for Process Industries, College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, ChinaWe demonstrated an all-fiber passively mode-locked thulium-doped fiber laser (TDFL) using organic semiconducting polymer dots (Pdots) based saturable absorber (SA). The Pdots are prepared by methods of donor-acceptor moieties and reprecipitation, which possess a broadband absorption from 400 to 2200 nm and nonlinear saturable absorption property at 2 μm. By depositing the Pdots onto the microfiber as an SA, long nonlinear interaction length of evanescent wave and Pots can be achieved. An ultrafast fiber laser operating at 1926 nm was observed. The output power could reach to 76.2 mW at the maximum pump power of 2.1 W. Compared with Pdot-film SAs in our previous work, these experimental results verify that PdotSAs functioned with evanescent field interaction are promising nonlinear optical modulators for ultrafast and high-power pulse generation.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9195841/Semiconducting polymer dotsmicrofibersaturable absorbermode-locked |
| spellingShingle | Fang Wang Yue Sun Xuenan Zhang Shuguang Li Tonglei Cheng Semiconducting Polymer Dots as Saturable Absorbers for Mode-Locked Thulium-Doped Fiber Lasers IEEE Access Semiconducting polymer dots microfiber saturable absorber mode-locked |
| title | Semiconducting Polymer Dots as Saturable Absorbers for Mode-Locked Thulium-Doped Fiber Lasers |
| title_full | Semiconducting Polymer Dots as Saturable Absorbers for Mode-Locked Thulium-Doped Fiber Lasers |
| title_fullStr | Semiconducting Polymer Dots as Saturable Absorbers for Mode-Locked Thulium-Doped Fiber Lasers |
| title_full_unstemmed | Semiconducting Polymer Dots as Saturable Absorbers for Mode-Locked Thulium-Doped Fiber Lasers |
| title_short | Semiconducting Polymer Dots as Saturable Absorbers for Mode-Locked Thulium-Doped Fiber Lasers |
| title_sort | semiconducting polymer dots as saturable absorbers for mode locked thulium doped fiber lasers |
| topic | Semiconducting polymer dots microfiber saturable absorber mode-locked |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9195841/ |
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