Photonics Research, 2016, 4 (3): 03000111, Published Online: Sep. 29, 2016
Dark solitons in WS2 erbium-doped fiber lasers Download: 976次
Pulse propagation and temporal solitons Pulse propagation and temporal solitons Lasers Lasers fiber fiber Modelocked lasers Modelocked lasers
Abstract
Tungsten disulfide (WS2) is a type of anisotropic-layered compound and has broadband saturable absorption features as saturable absorbers (SAs). With WS2-based SAs, dark solitons in erbium-doped fiber (EDF) lasers are first obtained. For the generated dark solitons, the center wavelength is measured to be 1530 nm, and the repetition rateis about 116.5 MHz. A series of optical spectra is exhibited. The electrical signal-to-noise ratio is better than 94 dB. Results in this paper demonstrate that WS2-based SAs are the promising SAs for generating dark solitons in EDF lasers.
Wenjun Liu, Lihui Pang, Hainian Han, Zhongwei Shen, Ming Lei, Hao Teng, Zhiyi Wei. Dark solitons in WS2 erbium-doped fiber lasers[J]. Photonics Research, 2016, 4(3): 03000111.