Title :
Optical deposition of graphene saturable absorber integrated in fiber laser using a slot collimator for pulsed operation: From Q-switching to mode-locking
Author :
Xu, Wen-Cheng ; Cao, Wen-Jun ; Luo, Ai-Ping ; Luo, Zhi-Chao
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Inf. & Optoelectron. Sci. & Eng., South China Normal Univ., Guangzhou, China
Abstract :
An intra-cavity method for optical deposition of graphene saturable absorber (SA) by using a slot collimator is newly proposed. With the fabricated graphene SA, the laser operation regime switched between Q-switching and mode-locking is investigated.
Keywords :
Q-switching; fibre lasers; graphene; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; optical saturable absorption; C; Q-switching; fiber laser; graphene saturable absorber; intra-cavity method; mode-locking; optical deposition; pulsed operation; slot collimator; Laser mode locking; Optical device fabrication; Optical fibers; Pulsed laser deposition; Pump lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC), 2012 17th
Conference_Location :
Busan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0976-9
Electronic_ISBN :
2166-8884
DOI :
10.1109/OECC.2012.6276548
