Single and bunch soliton generation in optical fiber lasers using bismuth selenide topological insulator saturable absorber
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-1-2023
Abstract
In this work, we present the generation of two distinct types of soliton pulses using a Bismuth Selenide (Bi2Se3) saturable absorber (SA) synthesized in our laboratory. The soliton pulses were generated in two different laser cavity configurations, resulting in two types of solitons: a soliton pulse with Kelly sidebands and a bunched soliton pulse with peak-dip sidebands. Both solitons operated at the fundamental repetition rate-23.3 MHz (for the soliton with Kelly sidebands) and 13 MHz (for the bunched soliton with peak-dip sidebands). We observed that the accumulation of nonlinear phase shift from the added single mode fiber (SMF) split the single soliton pulse into 44 pulses in a bunched oscillation envelope. At the same time, peak-dip sidebands were imposed on the bunched soliton spectrum due to constructive and destructive interferences between soliton pulse and dispersive waves. The measured pulse width for both solitons were 0.63 ps (for the soliton with Kelly sidebands) and 1.52 ps (for the bunched soliton with peak-dip sidebands), respectively. Our results demonstrate the potential of Bi2Se3 SAs in generating different types of soliton pulses, which could have potential applications in various areas of optical communication and spectroscopy.
Keywords
Soliton generation, Fiber lasers, Bismuth selenide, Topological insulator, Saturable absorber
Divisions
sch_ecs
Funders
Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia (MOHE) under the Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS) [Grant No: FRGS/1/2021/TK0/UKM/02/34]
Publication Title
Nanomaterials
Volume
13
Issue
9
Publisher
MDPI
Publisher Location
ST ALBAN-ANLAGE 66, CH-4052 BASEL, SWITZERLAND