• DocumentCode
    520736
  • Title

    Ultrafast fiber laser mode-locked by graphene based saturable absorber

  • Author

    Sun, Z. ; Hasan, T. ; Popa, D. ; Torrisi, F. ; Wang, F. ; Bonaccorso, F. ; Ferrari, A.C.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Eng., Univ. of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    16-21 May 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    A Graphene-based saturable absorber is fabricated using wet chemistry techniques. We use it to passively mode-lock an Erbium doped fiber laser. ∼500fs pulses are produced at 1560nm with a 5.2nm spectrum bandwidth.
  • Keywords
    Bandwidth; Chemical lasers; Electromagnetic wave absorption; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulse generation; Polymers; Pulse amplifiers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-890-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-55752-890-2
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5500330