Nonlinear Optical Properties of Zirconium Diselenide and Its Ultra-Fast Modulator Application

Nanomaterials

Xiaohan Chen¹  Huanian Zhang²  Mengxiao Wang³  Yue Zheng³  Linguang Guo³  Dengwang Li³ 

[1] School of Information Science and Engineering, and Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Laser Technology and Application, Shandong University, Jinan 250014, China;School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo 255049, China;Shandong Province Key Laboratory of Medical Physics and Image Processing Technology, School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China;

关键词: zirconium diselenide (zrse₂);    nonlinear absorption properties;    saturable absorber (sa);    er-doped fiber laser;    passively mode-locked fiber laser;   

DOI  :  10.3390/nano9101419

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Recently, two-dimensional (2D) materials have been widely studied by researchers due to their exceptional 2D structure and excellent optical characteristics. As one of the typically-layered 2D transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) semiconductors from group IVB with a bandgap value of 0.9−1.2 eV (bulk to monolayer), the characteristics of zirconium diselenide (ZrSe₂) have already been extensively investigated in many fields. However, the nonlinear absorption properties of ZrSe₂ in ultra-fast lasers have not been previously demonstrated. In this work, we measured various parameters in order to investigate the characteristics of the nonlinear saturable absorption of ZrSe₂. A ZrSe₂−polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) film was successfully prepared, which was employed as a saturable absorber (SA) to demonstrate, for the first time, an erbium (Er)-doped passive mode-locking fiber laser with a ring cavity. The saturation intensity of the ZrSe₂−PVA film-type SA is 12.72 MW/cm², while its modulation depth is 2.3%. The stable soliton state with a maximum output power of 11.37 mW and a narrowest monopulse duration of 12.5 ps at a repetition frequency of 21.22 MHz was detected. The experimental results conclusively proved that ZrSe₂, with its suitable bandgap value and excellent nonlinear absorption properties, as well as its high damage threshold, should have extensive potential applications within the field of ultra-fast pulse lasers.

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