Mode-locked 2-μm wavelength fiber laser using a graphene-saturable absorber

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

doi:10.1117/1.OE.52.7.076101

1 July 2013 Mode-locked 2-μm wavelength fiber laser using a graphene-saturable absorber

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

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 52, Issue 7, 076101 (July 2013). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.52.7.076101

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.

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Marc Currie, Travis J. Anderson, Virginia D. Wheeler, Luke O. Nyakiti, Nelson Y. Garces, Rachael L. Myers-Ward, Charles R. Eddy Jr., Fritz J. Kub, and D. Kurt Gaskill "Mode-locked 2-μm wavelength fiber laser using a graphene-saturable absorber," Optical Engineering 52(7), 076101 (1 July 2013). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.52.7.076101

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