Title :
Linearly Polarized 1180-nm Raman Fiber Laser Mode Locked by Graphene
Author :
Zhang, Lei ; Wang, Gaozhong ; Hu, Jinmeng ; Wang, Jianhua ; Fan, Jintai ; Wang, Jun ; Feng, Yan
Author_Institution :
$^{1}$Shanghai Key Laboratory of Solid State Laser and Application and Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
Abstract :
In this paper, we demonstrate a linearly polarized 1180-nm passively mode-locked Raman fiber laser using graphene-based saturable absorber (SA). The pump source is a linearly polarized ytterbium-doped fiber laser at 1120 nm. Stable nanosecond mode-locked pulses with a repetition rate of 0.4 MHz are generated. The combination of Raman technology and the graphene-based ultrawide bandwidth SA offer a prospect of real wavelength-versatile mode-locked laser source. The mode-locked laser operating at 1180 nm is suitable for frequency doubling to yellow light after amplification.
Keywords :
Fiber lasers; Fiber nonlinear optics; Graphene; Laser mode locking; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Mode-locked lasers; fiber nonlinear optics; optical properties of photonic materials;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Journal, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/JPHOT.2012.2218231
