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Multi-color Q-switched of neodymium-doped all-fiber laser based on tungsten disulfide saturable absorber

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In this paper, a Q-switched and three-color operation of Neodymium-doped silica all-fiber laser is realized, in which, a few-layer transition metal dichalcogenides WS2 is pioneered to be used as a saturable absorber (SA). The compact and simple linear cavity contains homemade fiber mirrors by directly depositing a multilayer coating the SiO2/Ta2O5 dielectric films on fiber end-face. In particular, by inserting the WS2-SA into the FP laser cavity, it is found that a stable Q-switching operation was achieved with the higher signal-to-noise ratios (SNR) of 60.76 dB, and the shortest pulse duration of 990 ns, as well as the maximum repetition rate of 124.4 kHz. Meanwhile, the maximum average output power and maximum pulse energy are close to 8.9 mW and 71.5 nJ, respectively. This is, the first demonstration of compact WS2-based neodymium-doped all-fiber laser operation at 1081.9, 1091.3 and 1100.1 nm.

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This work was supported by Guizhou Provincial Science and Technology Foundation No. ZK[2022]354; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (No. 61975168, No. 62062025 and No. 12005046); Guizhou Provincial Science and Technology Foundation No. ZK[2021]302; This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.12164009), which is received by Xuefei Liu.

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    Xiaofeng Rong, Yumin Yang, Xuefei Liu, Wenjun Xiao, Cheng Yang, Zhen Wang, Zhaohui Liu, Yuanni Xiao & Degui Wang

  2. Department of Electronic Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, China

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XR: methodology, investigation, writing-original draft. DW: preparation. YY: data curation. XL: writing-review and editing. WX: formal analysis. CY: visualization. ZW: characterization. ZL: supervision. YX: investigation. HX: conceptualization. ZC: resources, project administration.

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Rong, X., Yang, Y., Liu, X. et al. Multi-color Q-switched of neodymium-doped all-fiber laser based on tungsten disulfide saturable absorber. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 33, 21569–21575 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-022-08946-8

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