Employing MoS2 as a saturable absorber, We firstly demonstrated a passively Q-switched mode-locked (QML) Tm,Ho:CaYAlO4 laser. A tunable wavelength Ti:sapphire laser is used as the pumping source, and the continuous operation threshold of the Tm,Ho:CaYAlO4 laser is as low as 191 mw. When the absorption pumping power reached 1210 mW, the Tm,Ho:CaYAlO4 laser will entered a stable Q-switched mode-locked operation state, further increasing the pump power to 2.6w, the maximum output power of the laser is 216 mW, which corresponds a slope efficiency of 9.32% at the central wavelength of 2089 nm. In this case, the modulation depth is close to 100%. the experiments show the potential application of MoS2 in mode-locked operation at 2 micron band.
A passively Q-switched mode locking operation was first realized in a Tm, Ho:LLF laser by using a reflection-type MoS2 saturable absorber. When the absorption pump power is greater than 1.1W, a stable Q-switched mode locking operation was achieved, corresponding to a 100MHz of the mode-locked frequency. The modulation depth in Q-switching envelopes is close to 100%. The results show that the reflection-type MoS2 can be used as the absorber material for 2μm all solid state lasers.
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