Synthesis of graphene and its application as wide-band saturable absorbers

Author

Man Jiang ; Junjie Wu ; Zhaoyu Ren ; Mei Qi ; Jintao Bai ; Yang Bai ; Yuping Zhang ; Qunshu Wang

Author_Institution

Nat. Key Lab. of Photoelectric Technol. & Functional Mater., Northwest Univ., Xi´an, China

fYear

2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this report, synthesis of graphene by oxidation-reduction method and chemical vapor deposition(CVD). The structure of graphene was characterized by TEM and Raman spectrum. A saturable absorber based on graphene which provides excellent optics characteristic is fabricated, and there are no changes in the structure and characteristics of graphene. Graphene saturable absorber was used in solid-state laser and fiber laser from 1μm to 2μm, stable Q-switched pulse in a Nd:YAG laser and stable mode-locked pulse in the Er-doped fiber laser were obtained, respectively. Our results illustrate the feasibility of using graphene as an excellent saturable absorber for lasers.

Keywords

Q-switching; Raman spectra; chemical vapour deposition; erbium; fibre lasers; graphene; laser mode locking; neodymium; optical saturable absorption; oxidation; reduction (chemical); solid lasers; thin films; transmission electron microscopy; yttrium compounds; C; CVD; Er-doped fiber laser; Nd:YAG laser; Q-switched pulse; Raman spectrum; TEM; YAG:Nd; chemical vapor deposition; graphene structure; optical characteristics; oxidation-reduction; solid-state laser; stable mode-locked pulse; wavelength 1 mum to 2 mum; wide-band saturable absorbers; Doping; Lasers; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Photonics; Switches; chemical vapor deposition; graphene; oxidation-reduction; saturable absorber;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nanotechnology (IEEE-NANO), 2012 12th IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Birmingham

ISSN

1944-9399

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2198-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NANO.2012.6321988

Filename

6321988