Hot-wire chemical vapor deposition-synthesized MoO3-x saturable absorber for dual-wavelength mode-locked fiber laser
摘要
In this work, a stable dual-wavelength mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser (EDFL) incorporating sub-stoichiometric molybdenum trioxide (MoO3-x) as a saturable absorber (SA) is presented. The MoO3-x thin-film SA was prepared by hot-wire chemical vapor deposition (HWCVD) to induce oxygen vacancies and integrated into an all-fiber EDFL cavity. Stable dual-wavelength mode-locking was achieved over a pump power range of 109.1 mW to 164.5 mW, with peak wavelengths at 1532.2 nm and 1558.2 nm, separated by 26.0 nm. The mode-locked pulses exhibited an ultrashort pulse width of 4.44 ps, a repetition rate of 1.277 MHz, and a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of 84.32 dB. The maximum output power obtained was 10.07 mW, corresponding to a maximum pulse energy of 7.9 nJ. The stability of the dual-wavelength mode-locking was confirmed by continuous operation over 70 min. These findings demonstrate the potential of MoO3-x as an effective saturable absorber for generating stable dual-wavelength picosecond pulses in fiber lasers.