RESEARCH ARTICLE

Picosecond dissipative soliton generation from an ytterbium-doped fiber laser based on a BP/SnSe2-PVA mixture saturable absorber

  • Yuting Ouyang 1 ,
  • Jiayu Zhang 1 ,
  • Wanggen Sun 2 ,
  • Mengxiao Li 1 ,
  • Tao Chen 1 ,
  • Haikun Zhang , 1 ,
  • Wenjing Tang , 1 ,
  • Wei Xia 1
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  • 1. School of Physics and Technology, University of Jinan, Jinan 250022, China
  • 2. Shandong Huaguang Optoelectronics Co. Ltd., Jinan 250101, China
ss_zhanghk@ujn.edu.cn
sps_tangwj@ujn.edu.cn

Received date: 20 Mar 2023

Accepted date: 01 Jun 2023

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Abstract

Stable picosecond dissipative soliton pulses were observed in an ytterbium-doped fiber laser employing a high-quality mixture of BP/SnSe2-PVA saturable absorber (SA). The modulation depth, saturation intensity, and non-saturable loss of the mixture of BP/SnSe2-PVA SA were measured with values of 5.98%, 18.37 MW/cm2, and 33%, respectively. Within the pump power range of 150–270 mW, stable dissipative soliton pulses were obtained with an output power of 1.68–4 mW. When the minimum pulse duration is 1.28 ps, a repetition rate of 0.903 MHz, center wavelength of 1064.38 nm and 3 dB bandwidth of 2 nm were obtained. The maximum pulse energy of 4.43 nJ and the signal-to-noise ratio up to 72 dB were achieved at pump power of 270 mW. The results suggest that the BP/SnSe2-PVA mixture SA has outstanding nonlinear saturable absorption characteristics and broad ultrafast laser applications.

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Yuting Ouyang , Jiayu Zhang , Wanggen Sun , Mengxiao Li , Tao Chen , Haikun Zhang , Wenjing Tang , Wei Xia . Picosecond dissipative soliton generation from an ytterbium-doped fiber laser based on a BP/SnSe2-PVA mixture saturable absorber[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2023 , 16(3) : 19 . DOI: 10.1007/s12200-023-00074-3

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