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Research Article | Open Access

Few-layer Ti3CN MXene for ultrafast photonics applications in visible band

Zixin Yanga,c, Qi Yanga( ), Yulin Tiana, Xianghe Rena, Chun Lia, Yuqian Zua, Syed Zaheer Ud Dina, Lingfeng Gaob( ), Jian Wuc, Hualong Chend, Han Zhangd( ), Jie Liue, Jingliang Hef, Abdullah G. Al-Sehemig,h
International School for Optoelectronic Engineering, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Jinan, 250353, China
College of Material, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Key Laboratory of Organosilicon Chemistry and Material Technology, Ministry of Edu-cation,Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, 311121, China
College of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, 410073, China
Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics, College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China
Shandong Provincial Engineering and Technical Center of Light Manipulations and Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optics and Photonic Device, School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, 250358, China
State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, China
Research Center for Advanced Materials Science (RCAMS), King Khalid University, Abha, 61413, Saudi Arabia
Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Khalid University, Abha, 61413, Saudi Arabia

Peer review under responsibility of The Chinese Ceramic Society.

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Abstract

Ti3CN, as a typical hetero-MXene, has attracted tremendous attention for its unique properties. However, its ultrafast photonics applications are still rare. Here, the few-layer Ti3CN MXene was successfully prepared by selective etching and molecular delamination technique. The nonlinear optical response of few-layer Ti3CN MXene at 640 nm was studied using the open-aperture Z-scan technique. The as-prepared Ti3CN MXene sample exhibited excellent nonlinear saturable absorption characteristics, resulting in the nonlinear absorption coefficient β of −4.05 × 10-2 cm/GW, which was one order of magnitude larger than that of black phosphorus (BP) and molybdenum disulfide (MoS2). For the optical modulation applications of few-layer Ti3CN MXene, passively Q-switched (PQS) solid-state visible lasers based on Ti3CN saturable absorber (SA) at 522 nm, 607 nm, 639 nm, and 721 nm were successfully realized. Furthermore, a Ti3CN-based stable passively mode-locked Pr:YLF red laser was also successfully achieved with a pulse duration of 30 ps, and the corresponding repetition rate was 73.1 MHz. The optical modulation device based on few-layer Ti3CN MXene shows good performance. Our work demonstrates that the tremendous prospects of the few-layer Ti3CN MXene as a visible optical modulation device in ultrafast photonics applications.

Keywords

Ti3CN MXeneZ-scanSaturable absorberOptical modulatorPulsed visible lasers

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Journal of Materiomics
Volume 9 Issue 1,
January 2023
Pages 44-55
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmat.2022.09.004
Cite this article:
Yang Z, Yang Q, Tian Y, et al. Few-layer Ti3CN MXene for ultrafast photonics applications in visible band. Journal of Materiomics, 2023, 9(1): 44-55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmat.2022.09.004

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Received: 08 August 2022
Revised: 08 September 2022
Accepted: 09 September 2022
Published: 23 September 2022
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