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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 23, Issue 6, Pages 7681-7693Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.007681
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- MOE grant [NCET 11-0135]
- National Natural Science Fund [61222505, 61435010]
- Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China [13JJ1012]
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Topological insulators have been theoretically predicted as promising candidates for broadband photonics devices due to its large bulk band gap states in association with the spin-momentum-locked mass-less Dirac edge/surface states. Unlike the bulk counterpart, few-layer topological insulators possess some intrinsic optical advantages, such as low optical loss, low saturation intensity and high concentration of surface state. Herein, we use a solvothermal method to prepare few-layer Bi2Te3 flakes. By sandwiching few-layer Bi2Te3 flakes with polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) polymer, a novel light modulation device had been successfully fabricated with high chemical and thermal stabilities as well as excellent mechanical durability, originating from the contribution of PMMA acting as buffer layers that counteract excessive mechanical bending within the fragile Bi2Te3 flakes. The incorporation of the as-fabricated PMMA-TI-PMMA as saturable absorber, which could bear long-term mechanical loadings, into the fiber laser cavity generated the stable dissipative soliton mode-locking with a 3-dB spectral bandwidth up to 51.62 nm and tunable wavelength range of 22 nm. Our work provides a new way of fabricating PMMA-TI-PMMA sandwiched composite structure as saturable absorber with promising applications for laser operation. (C) 2015 Optical Society of America
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