Mid-infrared passively switched pulsed dual wavelength Ho3+ -doped fluoride fiber laser at 3 μm and 2 μm

Jianfeng Li; Hongyu Luo; Lele Wang; Yong Liu; Zhijun Yan; Kaiming Zhou; Lin Zhang; Sergei K. Turitsyn

doi:10.1038/srep10770

Mid-infrared passively switched pulsed dual wavelength Ho³⁺ -doped fluoride fiber laser at 3 μm and 2 μm

Jianfeng Li^*, Hongyu Luo, Lele Wang, Yong Liu, Zhijun Yan, Kaiming Zhou, Lin Zhang, Sergei K. Turitsyn

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Cascade transitions of rare earth ions involved in infrared host fiber provide the potential to generate dual or multiple wavelength lasing at mid-infrared region. In addition, the fast development of saturable absorber (SA) towards the long wavelengths motivates the realization of passively switched mid-infrared pulsed lasers. In this work, by combing the above two techniques, a new phenomenon of passively Q-switched ~3 μm and gain-switched ~2 μm pulses in a shared cavity was demonstrated with a Ho³⁺-doped fluoride fiber and a specifically designed semiconductor saturable absorber (SESAM) as the SA. The repetition rate of ~2 μm pulses can be tuned between half and same as that of ~3 μm pulses by changing the pump power. The proposed method here will add new capabilities and more flexibility for generating mid-infrared multiple wavelength pulses simultaneously that has important potential applications for laser surgery, material processing, laser radar, and free-space communications, and other areas.

Original language	English
Article number	10770
Number of pages	10
Journal	Scientific Reports
Volume	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/srep10770
Publication status	Published - 4 Jun 2015

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Funding: National Nature Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61435003,
61377042 and 61327004), European Commission’s Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship (Grant No. 911333), Open Fund of State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instruments of Zhejiang University, Open Fund of Medical Optical Key Laboratory of Jiangsu Province (Grant No. JKLMO201403), Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. ZYGX2013J058) Open Fund of High Energy Laser Science and Technology Key Laboratory of China Academy of Engineering Physics (Grant No. 2013005580)

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