Title :
Mode-locked operation of an erbium-doped fiber laser using a self-assembled graphene membrane after excitation of Q-switched pulse
Author :
Gui, Lili ; Zhang, Wei ; Li, Xiao ; Xiao, Xiaosheng ; Zhu, Hongwei ; Wang, Kunlin ; Wu, Dehai ; Yang, Changxi
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Precision Instrum., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
Abstract :
We demonstrate that a self-assembled graphene membrane can be used to mode-lock a fiber laser reliably. The membrane is formed at the liquid/air interface of reduced graphene oxide solution. The membrane was transferred onto the end-face of an optical fiber through physical adsorption, thus constituting a fiber-integrated SA.
Keywords :
Q-switching; erbium; fibre lasers; graphene; integrated optics; laser mode locking; laser reliability; optical fibres; optical saturable absorption; self-assembly; C; Q-switched pulse excitation; erbium-doped fiber laser; fiber-integrated saturable absorber; liquid-air interface; mode-locked operation; optical fiber; physical adsorption; reduced graphene oxide solution; self-assembled graphene membrane; Laser mode locking; Pump lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC), 2011 Conference on and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0533-5
Electronic_ISBN :
Pending
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5943664
