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Carbon nanofiber saturable absorbers for ultrafast pulsed laser at 1.56 μm

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In this paper, we propose and experimentally validate passively mode-locked erbium-doped fiber lasers utilizing CNFs as saturable absorbers (SAs). A mode-locked pulse was observed, with a central wavelength of 1562 nm and a bandwidth of 3.56 nm after inserting the CNF film into the ring cavity. The pulse duration and repetition rates are 1.28 ps and 54 MHz, respectively. The maximum output power can reach 1.93 mW. To our knowledge, this is the first report of CNF as SA in erbium-doped fiber lasers.

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National Key Research and Development Program of China, 2017YFA0701200, tonglei cheng, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 61775032, tonglei cheng, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, N2104022, tonglei cheng, N180408018, tonglei cheng, Natural Science Foundation of Science and Technology Department of Liaoning Province, 2020-BS-046, tonglei cheng, Hebei Natural Science Foundation under Grant, F2020501040, tonglei cheng, JSPS KAKENHI Grant, 17K18891, tonglei cheng, 18H01504, tonglei cheng, Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation, 2021A1515110506, fang wang, 111 Project, B16009, tonglei cheng, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, 2021M690563, tonglei cheng.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Synthetical Automation for Process Industries, College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, 110819, China

    Tonglei Cheng, Dongfang Lan, Yuhan Qu, Xuenan Zhang & Fang Wang

  2. Hebei Key Laboratory of Micro-Nano Precision Optical Sensing and Measurement Technology, Qinhuangdao, 066004, China

    Tonglei Cheng

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Cheng, T., Lan, D., Qu, Y. et al. Carbon nanofiber saturable absorbers for ultrafast pulsed laser at 1.56 μm. J Opt 52, 449–454 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12596-022-00909-w

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