Abstract
We demonstrate Q-switched pulses with 13.6 and 179.6 nJ pulse energy in Yb- and Er-doped fiber lasers using a few-layer WS2-PVA saturable absorber. We attribute the saturable absorption to edge-induced sub-bandgap states in WS2.
© 2015 Optical Society of America
PDF ArticleMore Like This
Guoqing Hu, Meng Zhang, Lingling Chen, Xuekun Zhu, Guouhua Hu, Richard C. T. Howe, Xin Zhao, Zheng Zheng, and Tawfique Hasan
25A3_4 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Pacific Rim (CLEO/PR) 2015
G. Hu, M. Zhang, L. Chen, T. Li, G. Hu, R. C. T. Howe, X. Zhao, Z. Zheng, and T. Hasan
STu1R.6 CLEO: Science and Innovations (CLEO:S&I) 2016
Junli Wang, Sha Li, Yonggang Wang, Jiangfeng Zhu, and Zhiyi Wei
AF4I.1 Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP) 2016