Tm3+-Doped Harmonic Dissipative Soliton Mode-Locked Fiber Laser at 1.93 [Formula Omitted]m Based on Tungsten Disulfide in Anomalous Dispersion Regime

• Published in: IEEE access 2019-01, Vol.7, p.170185
• Main Authors: Tian, Zhen, Zhao, Min, Zhang, Liqiang, Zhou, Haimiao, Dong, Yan, Cheng-Kai, Yao, Chen, Nan-Kuang, Liaw, Shien-Kuei, Chun-Nien Liu, Yu, Huishan
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Broadband; Fiber lasers; Laser applications; Lasers; Liquid phases; Mode locking; Multilayers; Pulse duration; Solitary waves; Thulium; Tungsten disulfide
• ISSN: 2169-3536
• DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2955312

We report a harmonic dissipative soliton 1.93 μm thulium fiber laser based on a tungsten disulfide (WS2) saturable absorber (SA) in the anomalous dispersion regime. The multilayer WS2 nanosheets were prepared by liquid phase exfoliation method and the SA was fabricated by dropping WS2 solution onto a gold mirror. The transferred WS2 SA had a modulation depth of 2.5% and a saturation intensity of 0.82 MW/cm2. By incorporating the SA into a linear Tm3+ fiber laser cavity, harmonic mode-locked dissipative soliton laser was achieved at 1930 nm with the spectral width of 8 nm, the pulse energy of 3 nJ, the pulse width of 3.6 ns, and the repetition rate of 56.3 MHz. Based on the experimental results, it is shown that with the presence of harmonic mode-locking in 2 μm wavelength region, the multilayer WS2 serving as a SA was verified to be a good candidate for broadband high-energy mode-locking. The order of the harmonic dissipative soliton mode-locked pulses remains the same along with the increasing pump power.