Microfibers with different waist diameters were prepared successfully by a flame-brushing technique. Their saturable absorption properties were investigated. The non-saturable loss and modulation depth both decreased with the increase of the diameter. According to the mode distribution of microfibers with a waist diameter of 25 μm, it could be supposed that the evanescent field effect may be useful for microfibers being saturable absorbers (SAs). Based on the 25 μm-diameter microfiber, an all-fiber-structure mode-locked fiber laser was achieved successfully with long term stability in the span of a week. The results indicated that microfibers with suitable diameters were excellent SAs. To the best of our knowledge, this is first report on the usage of microfibers as a SA for building ultrafast fiber lasers.
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Xi'an Key Laboratory of Functional Organic Porous Materials, Key Laboratory of Special Functional and Smart Polymer Materials of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, 710129, P. R. China.
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Department of Optical Science and Engineering, Shanghai Ultra-Precision Optical Manufacturing Engineering Center, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.
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College of Optical, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang A&F University, Lin'an 311300, China.
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