We reported diverse soliton operations in a thulium/holmium-doped fiber laser by taking advantage of a tapered fiber-based topological insulator（TI） Bi2Te3 saturable absorber（SA）.The SA had a nonsaturable loss of 53.5% and a modulation depth of 9.8%.Stable fundamentally mode-locked solitons at 1909.5 nm with distinct Kelly sidebands on the output spectrum,a pulse repetition rate of 21.5 MHz,and a measured pulse width of 1.26 ps were observed in the work.By increasing the pump power,both bunched solitons with soliton number up to 15 and harmonically mode-locked solitons with harmonic order up to 10 were obtained.To our knowledge,this is the first report of both bunched solitons and harmonically mode-locked solitons in a fiber laser at 2 μm region incorporated with TIs.
Ke YinBin ZhangLei LiTian JiangXuanfeng ZhouJing Hou
