Abstract
Two-dimensional materials with a sheet structure have excellent optical, electrical and mechanical properties, and have attracted much attention in recent years, especially In2Se3 (the N-type semiconductor compound), which has a rapid development in the fields of materials science and optical communication. In this paper, the nonlinear saturation absorption characteristics of In2Se3 are studied. The In2Se3 nanosheet dispersion can be used in ultrafast photonics applications. The nonlinear absorption is measured by power dependent method, and the modulation depth and saturation intensity are 3.8% and 246.6 MW cm−2, respectively. More importantly, In2Se3 is used as a saturable absorber (SA) in a passively mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser. The proposed mode-locked fiber laser is demenstrated with a center wavelength of 1529.4 nm, a fundamental frequency of 5.9 MHz, a spectral width of 3.96 nm, a pulse width of 1.38 ps, and a signal-to-noise ratio of 55 dB. For the first time, harmonic mode-locking with a high-repetition rate of 431 MHz is achieved when the pump power is 360 mW corresponding to 73rd-order harmonic mode locking. It can be seen that In2Se3 is indeed a new excellent photonic material, which can be used in fiber optic communication, SAs photonics, laser material processing and light modulators.
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