• 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