Graphene mode locked, wavelength-tunable, dissipative soliton fiber laser

By Han Zhang, Daiming Tang, R. Knize, Luming Zhao, Q. Bao, K. Loh. 2010

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Atomic layer graphene possesses wavelength-insensitive ultrafast saturable absorption, which can be exploited as a “full-band” mode locker. Taking advantage of the wide band saturable absorption of the graphene, we demonstrate experimentally that wide range (1570–1600 nm) continuous wavelength tunable dissipative solitons could be formed in an erbium doped fiber laser mode locked with few layer graphene.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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Switchable Dual-Wavelength Synchronously Q-Switched Erbium-Doped Fiber Laser Based on Graphene Saturable Absorber (2012, background): “Wavelength tunable pulsed lasers based on graphene SA with the tuning range up to several tens of nanometers have been reported [16]–[18].”
Monolayer graphene as a saturable absorber in a mode-locked laser (2010, background): “Previously, we have demonstrated the application of few-layer graphene [7–9] as well as graphene–polymer composites [10, 11] as saturable absorbers in mode-locked lasers.”
A stable, wideband tunable, near transform-limited, graphene-mode-locked, ultrafast laser (2010, background): “Compared to previous tunable, graphene modelocked lasers [44, 45], we can achieve significantly lower fluctuations, and much shorter, near transformlimited pulse durations, thus, showcasing the wideband operation capability of graphene and its potential as a wideband mode-locker.”
A Tutorial on Nonlinear Photonic Applications of Carbon Nanotube and Graphene (2012, background): “So the people began to try the graphene-based SA in the laser systems in which mode-locking had been already demonstrated with the CNT-based SA, such as generation of very short ( fs) soliton pulse [134], highenergy ( nJ) soliton pulse [135], dissipative soliton pulse [136], and high-repetition rate”
Colloquium: Graphene spectroscopy (2014, background): “These processes are not only of fundamental interest due to the unusual electronic structure in graphene, but also important for technological applications of high-field electronics and nonlinear photonic devices (Bao et al., 2009; Fengnian Xia et al., 2009; Bonaccorso et al., 2010; Zhipei Sun et al”