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Metallic MXene Saturable Absorber for Femtosecond Mode‐Locked Lasers
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Metallic MXene Saturable Absorber for Femtosecond Mode‐Locked Lasers

Young In Jhon, Joonhoi Koo, Babak Anasori, Minah Seo, Ju Han Lee, Yury Gogotsi and Young Min Jhon
Advanced materials (Weinheim), v 29(40), pp 1702496-n/a
25 Oct 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201702496
PMID: 28714145

Abstract

Ti3CN femtosecond lasers saturable absorptions MXenes 2D materials ESI Highly Cited Paper (Incites)
2D transition metal carbides, nitrides, and carbonitides called MXenes have attracted much attention due to their outstanding properties. However, MXene's potential in laser technology is not explored. It is demonstrated here that Ti3CN, one of MXene compounds, can serve as an excellent mode‐locker that can produce femtosecond laser pulses from fiber cavities. Stable laser pulses with a duration as short as 660 fs are readily obtained at a repetition rate of 15.4 MHz and a wavelength of 1557 nm. Density functional theory calculations show that Ti3CN is metallic, in contrast to other 2D saturable absorber materials reported so far to be operative for mode‐locking. 2D structural and electronic characteristics are well conserved in their stacked form, possibly due to the unique interlayer coupling formed by MXene surface termination groups. Noticeably, the calculations suggest a promise of MXenes in broadband saturable absorber applications due to metallic characteristics, which agrees well with the experiments of passively Q‐switched lasers using Ti3CN at wavelengths of 1558 and 1875 nm. This study provides a valuable strategy and intuition for the development of nanomaterial‐based saturable absorbers opening new avenues toward advanced photonic devices based on MXenes. A metallic 2D material, Ti3CN MXene, is demonstrated to be an excellent mode‐locker for femtosecond laser generation regardless of stacking. Ti3CN also shows promise in broadband saturable absorber applications due to metallic characteristics. It is inferred that the 2D nature and unique stacking of Ti3CN are responsible for these outstanding results that can hardly be achieved in the 3D metallic regime.

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