Title :
Mode-locked fiber laser using graphene on silicon waveguide
Author :
Chi Yan Wong ; Zhenzhou Cheng ; Zerui Shi ; Yi Min Chen ; Ke Xu ; Hon Ki Tsang
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Abstract :
We report the first in-plane graphene on silicon saturable absorber for mode-locking an Er-doped fiber laser. Pulses with 1.4 ps full-width-half-maximum pulse width and 7 nm spectral bandwidth at 1560 nm were obtained.
Keywords :
elemental semiconductors; erbium; fibre lasers; graphene; integrated optics; integrated optoelectronics; laser mode locking; optical saturable absorption; optical waveguides; silicon; C-Si; full-width-half-maximum pulse width; graphene; mode-locked fiber laser; saturable absorber; silicon waveguide; spectral bandwidth; time 1.4 ps; wavelength 1560 nm; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Graphene; Laser mode locking; Optical fiber devices; Optical waveguides; Silicon; Waveguide lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Group IV Photonics (GFP), 2013 IEEE 10th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Seoul
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5803-3
DOI :
10.1109/Group4.2013.6644477
