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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 22, Issue 6, Pages 6868-6873Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.006868
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11074078, 61378036, 61307058, 11304101]
- PhD Start-up Fund of Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province, China [S2013040016320]
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We reported on the generation of femtosecond pulse in a fiber ring laser by using a polyvinyl alcohol (PVA)-based topological insulator (TI), Bi2Se3 saturable absorber (SA). The PVA-TI composite has a low saturable optical intensity of 12 MW/cm(2) and a modulation depth of similar to 3.9%. By incorporating the fabricated PVA-TISA into a fiber laser, mode-locking operation could be achieved at a low pump threshold of 25 mW. After an optimization of the cavity parameters, optical pulse with similar to 660 fs centered at 1557.5 nm wavelength had been generated. The experimental results demonstrate that the PVA could be an excellent host material for fabricating high-performance TISA, and also indicate that the filmy PVA-TISA is indeed a good candidate for ultrafast saturable absorption device. (C) 2014 Optical Society of America
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