| Citation: | LIU Xiao-juan, ZHANG Mei-xia, LIU Tian-run, Lv Wen-hao, LU Cheng. Ultrafast erbium-doped fiber laser modulated by Nb4AlC3 saturable absorber[J]. Chinese Optics. doi: 10.37188/CO.EN-2024-0032
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In this paper, a conventional soliton (CS) mode-locked erbium-doped fiber (EDF) laser was realized using MAX phase material (MAX-PM) Nb4AlC3 as a saturable absorber (SA). First, the liquid phase exfoliation (LPE) method was utilized to prepare Nb4AlC3 nanosheets, and then a piece of tapered fiber was adopted to fabricate Nb4AlC3-SA. It was found that the saturation intensity and modulation depth of the Nb4AlC3-SA are 2.02 MW/cm2 and 1.88 %. Based on the Nb4AlC3-SA, a conventional soliton (CS) mode-locked EDF laser was achieved. The central wavelength, pulse duration, and pulse repetition rate were found to be
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