A stable, wideband tunable, near transform-limited, graphene-mode-locked, ultrafast laser

By Zhipei Sun, Daniel Popa, Tawfique Hasan, F. Torrisi, Fengqiu Wang, Edmund J. R. Kelleher, John C. Travers, V. Nicolosi, Andrea C. Ferrari. 2010

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We report an ultrafast laser mode-locked with a graphene saturable absorber. The linear dispersions of the Dirac electrons in graphene enable wideband tunability. We get ∼1 ps pulses, tunable between 1525 and 1559 nm, with stable mode-locking, insensitive to environmental perturbations.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry

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In Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

1. Edmund J. R. Kelleher
2. R. I. Woodward
3. Tawfique Hasan
4. F. Torrisi
5. Zhipei Sun
6. Meng Zhang
7. R. Howe
8. G. Hu

In Materials Chemistry

1. Edmund J. R. Kelleher
2. R. I. Woodward
3. Zhipei Sun
4. Tawfique Hasan
5. F. Torrisi
6. G. Hu
7. R. Howe
8. Meng Zhang

Citations in the corpus

• Broadband Graphene Saturable Absorber for Pulsed Fiber Lasers at 1, 1.5, and 2 μm (2014, background): “Tunable and multi-wavelength ultrafast output also have been demonstrated [17], [27].”
• Solution processed MoS2-PVA composite for sub-bandgap mode-locking of a wideband tunable ultrafast Er:fiber laser (2015, methodology): “Within the erbium gain band, tunable mode-locked lasers have been demonstrated using polymer composite SAs based on both CNTs and graphene [43, 44].”