relation: https://khub.utp.edu.my/scholars/15079/
title: Ultrashort pulse generation with MXene Ti3C2Tx embedded in PVA and deposited onto D-shaped fiber
creator: Jafry, A.A.A.
creator: Muhammad, A.R.
creator: Kasim, N.
creator: Rosol, A.H.A.
creator: Rusdi, M.F.M.
creator: Ab Alim, N.N.N.
creator: Harun, S.W.
creator: Yupapin, P.
description: A two-dimensional ternary metal carbide or/and nitride known as MXene, own countless merits in terms of electronic and optical properties. Owning to its fast optical-switching capability, strong saturable absorption, good optical damage tolerant, and gapless materials, it attracts a bunch of research efforts in an ultrafast photonics application. Here, the development of MXene-based SA devices for ultrafast laser in an erbium-doped fiber laser (EDFL) cavity was demonstrated. Two MXene Ti3C2Tx-based SAs were prepared, which were a thin film of MXene (MXene-film) and MXene deposited onto D-shaped fiber (MXene-DS), both revealed good nonlinear transmittance properties. The selective etching was used to provide a high-quality MXene powder, and the solution-casting method produced liquid MXene, which was dried to form a thin-film structure, and the liquid MXene was deposited onto the D-shaped fiber structure. The MXene-film and MXene-DS own a modulation depth of 1.22 and 3, respectively. Later, both SA devices were incorporated into an EDFL cavity, and MXene-film initiated mode-locked (ML) at the low threshold pump of 44 mW, while MXene-DS produce ML at the pump power of 90 mW. The MXene-film generates a 3.64 ps ML with a pulse energy of 6.03 nJ, separately, MXene-DS initiates a 4.6 ps ML with a pulse energy of 7.69 nJ, highest ever reported among MXene-based SA. This demonstration provides a pathway toward high-energy mode-locking applications in the future. © 2020 Elsevier Ltd
publisher: Elsevier Ltd
date: 2021
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
identifier:   Jafry, A.A.A. and Muhammad, A.R. and Kasim, N. and Rosol, A.H.A. and Rusdi, M.F.M. and Ab Alim, N.N.N. and Harun, S.W. and Yupapin, P.  (2021) Ultrashort pulse generation with MXene Ti3C2Tx embedded in PVA and deposited onto D-shaped fiber.  Optics and Laser Technology, 136.   ISSN 00303992     
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relation: 10.1016/j.optlastec.2020.106780
identifier: 10.1016/j.optlastec.2020.106780