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Nickel–cobalt layered double hydroxide as a saturable absorber for continuous wave mode-locked laser

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The nickel–cobalt (NiCo) layered double hydroxide (LDH) is prepared by ultrasonic liquid phase-assisted exfoliation method and dispersed onto mirror forming saturable absorber (SA). With NiCo-LDH SA, a continuous wave mode-locked laser at 1065.9 nm with a maximum output power of 1.72 W was achieved with a repetition frequency of 69 MHz and a pulse width of 18 ps. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first implementation of the NiCo-LDH as a SA for continuous wave mode-locked laser operation, which demonstrates the great potential of the NiCo-LDH for integration into lasers.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 12174211, 12174212).

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  1. Shandong Engineering Research Center of New Optoelectronic Information Technology and Devices, School of Mathematics and Physics, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266061, People’s Republic of China

    Long Du, Chun Qi, Xiaohui Hu, Jianxin Zhao, Guocheng Sun, Fei Lou, Shuaiyi Zhang & Xia Wang

  2. Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, 201800, People’s Republic of China

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  3. School of Physics and Technology, Jinan University, Jinan, 250001, People’s Republic of China

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Conceptualization, CQ methodology, LD software, XH validation, FL formal analysis, CQ investigation, XH resources, FL and SZ data curation, JZ and GS writing—original draft preparation, LD writing—review and editing, LD visualization, FL supervision, SZ and ZW project administration, XW and ZW funding acquisition, SZ and XW. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

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Du, L., Qi, C., Hu, X. et al. Nickel–cobalt layered double hydroxide as a saturable absorber for continuous wave mode-locked laser. Appl. Phys. B 130, 39 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-024-08172-6

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