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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 117, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4907872
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [612050346]
- Guangdong Province Shenzhen Municipal Science and Technology Plan [2010B090400306, JC201105160592A, JCYJ 20120613150130014]
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We experimentally demonstrate a multi-wavelength ultrafast erbium-doped fiber laser incorporating a mu m-scale topological insulator: Bi2Se3/Polyvinyl Alcohol film as both an excellent saturable absorber for mode-locking and a high-nonlinear medium to induce a giant third order optical nonlinear effect for mitigating the mode competition of erbium-doped fiber laser and stabilizing the multi-wavelength oscillation. By properly adjusting the pump power and the polarization state, the single-, dual-, triple-, four-wavelength mode-locking pulse could be stably initiated. For the four-wavelength operation, we obtain its pulse width of similar to 22 ps and a fundamental repetition rate of 8.83 MHz. The fiber laser exhibits the maximum output power of 9.7 mW with the pulse energy of 1.1 nJ and peak power of 50W at the pump power of 155 mW. Our study shows that the simple, stable, low-cost multi-wavelength ultrafast fiber laser could be applied in various potential fields, such as optical communication, biomedical research, and radar system. (C) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC.
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