Broadband Graphene Saturable Absorber for Pulsed Fiber Lasers at 1, 1.5, and 2 μm

被引：202

作者：

Fu, Bo ^{[1
]}

Hua, Yi ^{[1
]}

Xiao, Xiaosheng ^{[1
]}

Zhu, Hongwei ^{[2
,3
]}

Sun, Zhipei ^{[4
]}

Yang, Changxi ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Tsinghua Univ, Dept Precis Instruments, State Key Lab Precis Measurement Technol & Instru, Beijing 100084, Peoples R China

[2] Tsinghua Univ, Sch Mat Sci & Engn, Beijing 100084, Peoples R China

[3] Tsinghua Univ, Ctr Nano & Micro Mech, Beijing 100084, Peoples R China

[4] Aalto Univ, Dept Micro & Nanosci, FI-00076 Aalto, Finland

来源：

IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS | 2014年 / 20卷 / 05期

基金：

中国国家自然科学基金;

关键词：

Graphene saturable absorber; mode-locked fiber lasers; Yb-doped fiber laser; Er-doped fiber laser; Tm-doped fiber laser; MODE-LOCKING; HIGH-QUALITY; ULTRAFAST; NANOTUBE; PROPAGATION; GENERATION; FILMS; TM;

D O I：

10.1109/JSTQE.2014.2302361

中图分类号：

TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];

学科分类号：

0808 ; 0809 ;

摘要：

Ultrafast fiber lasers with broad spectral coverage are in great demand for a variety of applications, such as spectroscopy, and biomedical diagnosis. Graphene is an ideal ultrawide-band saturable absorber. We report broadband (up to similar to 1000 nm) ultrafast pulse generation from three fiber lasers mode-locked by a single graphene saturable absorber device. The mode-locked pulses were based on Yb-, Er-and Tm: Ho-doped fiber lasers at the central wavelength of 1035, 1564, and 1908 nm, respectively. The maximum output energy is up to 16.2 nJ at 1908 nm. It is the first time that ultrafast fiber lasers covering 1, 1.5, and 2 mu m spectral region are mode-locked with a single graphene device. Our results validate the intrinsic broadband operation property of graphene devices for all major fiber laser wavelengths from 1 to 2 mu m.

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