Mode-locked 2-mu m wavelength fiber laser using a graphene-saturable absorber Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Soliton-like pulses with a 1984-nm center wavelength are produced from a Tm-doped mode-locked fiber laser. The linear cavity has a graphene saturable absorber mirror at one end and a fiber Bragg grating as the output coupler. The laser operates without dispersion compensation, and the repetition rate was tuned from 20 to 5 MHz by the addition of SMF-28 fiber. The dry transfer process used to place the graphene on a mirror could be extended to any optical substrate. This enables integration of graphene with optics such as an optical window coated with a graphene filter or a graphene-saturable absorber placed directly on a semiconductor laser facet. The Authors. Published by SPIE under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

published proceedings

  • OPTICAL ENGINEERING

author list (cited authors)

  • Currie, M., Anderson, T., Wheeler, V., Nyakiti, L. O., Garces, N. Y., Myers-Ward, R. L., ... Gaskill, D. K.

citation count

  • 6

complete list of authors

  • Currie, Marc||Anderson, Travis||Wheeler, Virginia||Nyakiti, Luke O||Garces, Nelson Y||Myers-Ward, Rachael L||Eddy, Charles R Jr||Kub, Fritz J||Gaskill, D Kurt

publication date

  • January 2013