2-μm mode-locked nanosecond fiber laser based on MoS2 saturable absorber**Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11304409), the Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing City, China (Grant No. CSTC2013jcyjA4004), the Scientific and Technological Research Program of Chongqing Municipal Education Commission, China (Grant No. KJ1500422), and the Special Theme Projects on LCD Industrial Generic Technology Innovation of Chongqing City, China (Grant No. CSTC2015zdcy-ztzx40003).

Abstract

We demonstrated a 2- passively mode-locked nanosecond fiber laser based on a MoS2 saturable absorber (SA). Owing to the effect of nonlinear absorption in the MoS2 SA, the pulse width decreased from 64.7 to 13.8 ns with increasing pump power from 1.10 to 1.45 W. The use of a narrow-bandwidth fiber Bragg grating resulted in a central wavelength and 3-dB spectral bandwidth of 2010.16 and 0.15 nm, respectively. Experimental results show that MoS2 is a promising material for a 2- mode-locked fiber laser.