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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6
