Recent advances of 2D materials in nonlinear photonics and fiber lasers

W Liu, M Liu, X Liu, X Wang, HX Deng… - Advanced Optical …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
The explosive success of graphene opens a new era of ultrathin 2D materials. It has been
realized that the van der Waals layered materials with atomic and less atomic thickness can …

Topological Insulators: An In‐depth review of their use in modelocked fiber lasers

S Mondal, R Ganguly, K Mondal - Annalen der Physik, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Topological insulators (TIs) exhibit exciting optical properties, which open up a new pathway
to generate ultrashort pulses from fiber lasers. Layered TIs display distinct saturable …

Ytterbium-doped fiber laser passively mode locked by few-layer Molybdenum Disulfide (MoS2) saturable absorber functioned with evanescent field interaction

J Du, Q Wang, G Jiang, C Xu, C Zhao, Y **ang… - Scientific reports, 2014‏ - nature.com
By coupling few-layer Molybdenum Disulfide (MoS2) with fiber-taper evanescent light field, a
new type of MoS2 based nonlinear optical modulating element had been successfully …

Passively mode-locked Er-doped fiber laser based on SnS2 nanosheets as a saturable absorber

K Niu, R Sun, Q Chen, B Man, H Zhang - Photonics Research, 2018‏ - opg.optica.org
In this paper, tin disulfide (SnS 2), a two-dimensional (2D) n-type direct bandgap layered
metal dichalcogenide with a gap value of 2.24 eV, was employed as a saturable absorber …

1-, 1.5-, and 2-μm Fiber Lasers Q-Switched by a Broadband Few-Layer MoS2 Saturable Absorber

Z Luo, Y Huang, M Zhong, Y Li, J Wu… - Journal of lightwave …, 2014‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose and demonstrate 1, 1.5, and 2 μm passively Q-switched fiber lasers by
exploiting a few-layer Molybdenum sulfide (MoS 2) polymer composite as broadband …

2D Ductile Transition Metal Chalcogenides (TMCs): Novel High‐Performance Ag2S Nanosheets for Ultrafast Photonics

J Feng, X Li, Z Shi, C Zheng, X Li… - Advanced Optical …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
As a member of the 2D transition metal chalcogenides (TMCs), 2D Ag2S with large
absorption coefficient, broadband optical response, extraordinary metal‐like ductility, high …

Graphene–Bi2Te3 Heterostructure as Saturable Absorber for Short Pulse Generation

H Mu, Z Wang, J Yuan, S **ao, C Chen, Y Chen… - Acs …, 2015‏ - ACS Publications
Rapid progresses have been achieved in the photonic applications of two-dimensional
materials such as graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides, and topological insulators …

Mode-locked Er-doped fiber laser based on PbS/CdS core/shell quantum dots as saturable absorber

N Ming, S Tao, W Yang, Q Chen, R Sun, C Wang… - Optics express, 2018‏ - opg.optica.org
Previously, PbS/CdS core/shell quantum dots with excellent optical properties have been
widely used as light-harvesting materials in solar cell and biomarkers in bio-medicine …

Using n- and p-Type Bi2Te3 Topological Insulator Nanoparticles To Enable Controlled Femtosecond Mode-Locking of Fiber Lasers

YH Lin, SF Lin, YC Chi, CL Wu, CH Cheng… - Acs …, 2015‏ - ACS Publications
Mechanically triturated n-and p-type Bi2Te3 nanoparticles, the nanoscale topological
insulators (TIs), are employed as nonlinear saturable absorbers to passively mode-lock the …

Widely-tunable, passively Q-switched erbium-doped fiber laser with few-layer MoS2 saturable absorber

Y Huang, Z Luo, Y Li, M Zhong, B Xu, K Che, H Xu… - Optics …, 2014‏ - opg.optica.org
We propose and demonstrate a MoS_2-based passively Q-switched Er-doped fiber laser
with a wide tuning range of 1519.6–1567.7 nm. The few-layer MoS_2 nano-platelets are …