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Defective molybdenum oxide function as saturable absorber for nanosecond pulse generater servicing Nd3+, Er3+, Tm3+ doped laser emission at 1.06, 1.64 and 1.94 μm

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A defective molybdenum oxide (MoO3−x) prepared by a hydrothermal and defect engineering approach was spin-coated on the quartz glass and implemented as saturable absorber (SA). The experiment evidenced that MoO3−x based SA can function as an efficient nanosecond pulse generator, servicing Nd3+, Er3+, Tm3+ doped lasers emission at 1.06 1.64 and 1.94 µm. And the shortest pulse duration of 396 ns, 275 ns, and 1.4 μs was achieved on this wavelength with the corresponding maximum peak power of 14.37 W, 33.76 W and 7.94 W. In our study were also observed the optical modulation characteristics as well as the output performance of the passive Q-switch lasers modulated by MoO3−x SA, which indicates that the modulation depths are 6.5%, 7.6% and 5.8%, respectively, while the average output powers 0.79 W, 1.13 W and 1.6 W. The results confirm that the few-layered MoO3−x nanosheets can be a promising candidate for pulse laser generation in wide spectral bands, and they exhibit a great stability in an atmospheric environment and high laser damage threshold, which are beneficial to realizing high power laser output.

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This work was funded by the NSFC (Grant no. 61704095), the “3315 innovative team” Ningbo city, European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 798916.

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This research is funded by Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars of Heilongjiang Province (Grant No. JQ2020E005).

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    Tianwen Gao, Ao Guo & Shaotian Chen

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Yang, X., Feng, L., Gao, T. et al. Defective molybdenum oxide function as saturable absorber for nanosecond pulse generater servicing Nd3+, Er3+, Tm3+ doped laser emission at 1.06, 1.64 and 1.94 μm. Appl. Phys. B 126, 174 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-020-07526-0

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