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Wavelength Tunable Pulsed Lasers Enabled by a Versatile Metafiber Functioning as Both Saturable Absorber and Filter

Fu, Bo
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Zhang, Chenxi
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Zhang, Zhouqi
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October 17, 2025
Advanced Science

Wavelength‐tunable pulsed lasers have garnered significant research interest due to their critical role in applications requiring precise spectral matching, such as wavelength‐division multiplexing and spectroscopic analysis. Although recent hybrid architectures integrating saturable absorbers with wavelength‐selective components have enabled notable progress, these systems remain constrained by two fundamental challenges: excessive coupling losses and complex alignment procedures. Here, a compact wavelength‐tunable pulsed laser configuration is presented that employs a monolithic fiber‐based component, effectively addressing the complexity and alignment issues inherent in conventional hybrid systems. By leveraging advanced manufacturing techniques, a 2D metafiber is integrated with a 3D Fabry‐Perot interferometer at the end facet of a single‐mode optical fiber, forming a metafiber Fabry‐Perot structure that simultaneously functions as both a saturable absorber and a tunable optical filter. Exploiting the versatile optical feedback provided by the Fabry‐Perot cavity, our design achieves Q‐switching operation in the telecommunication band and enables approximately 10 nm dynamic wavelength tuning through temperature/refractive index modulation. This work circumvents the structural complexity of traditional hybrid systems while ensuring stable laser operation, demonstrating a promising pathway for high‐performance wavelength‐tunable pulsed laser applications.

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research article
DOI
10.1002/advs.202511572
Author(s)
Fu, Bo
Zhang, Chenxi
Zhang, Zhouqi
Ouyang, Zuxi
Wang, Gang  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Jing, Xiuhan
Chen, Weilin
Zhang, Lei
Qiu, Min
Date Issued

2025-10-17

Publisher

Wiley

Published in
Advanced Science
Article Number

e11572

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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PHOSL  
FunderFunding(s)Grant NumberGrant URL

Natural Science Foundation of Beijing Municipality

1252023

Aeronautical Science Foundation of China

2024Z073051005

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October 20, 2025
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