Abstract

Eye-safe pulse lasers have attracted increasing attention due to their potential wide application in many fields. However, optical modulators with excellent nonlinear optical absorption properties in the range of 1.4–2.1 μm are still very scarce. In this study, tin diselenide (SnSe2), a newly-developed 2D layered semiconductor material with facile processability and low cost, was investigated. The nonlinear optical response of SnSe2 was investigated using the open aperture Z-scan method at 1500 and 1800 nm. Using SnSe2 as the saturable absorber, a passive Q-switched solid-state laser was realized at 1.3 and 1.9 μm for the first time. This study proved SnSe2 to be an effective optical modulating material for the eye-safe waveband.

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