DocumentCode
1677448
Title
Graphene passively Q-switched two-micron fiber lasers
Author
Wang, F. ; Torrisi, F. ; Jiang, Z. ; Popa, D. ; Hasan, T. ; Sun, Z. ; Cho, W.B. ; Ferrari, A.C.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Eng., Univ. of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
fYear
2012
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
2
Abstract
We demonstrate a passively Q-switched thulium fiber laser, using a graphene-based saturable absorber. The laser is based on an all-fiber ring cavity and produces ~2.3 μs pulses at 1884 nm, with a maximum pulse energy of 70 nJ.
Keywords
Q-switching; fibre lasers; graphene; laser cavity resonators; optical saturable absorption; thulium; all-fiber ring cavity; energy 70 nJ; graphene based saturable absorber; graphene passively Q-switched fiber lasers; wavelength 1884 nm; Fiber lasers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber dispersion;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN
978-1-4673-1839-6
Type
conf
Filename
6326556
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