Title :
Noise-like pulse generation by gold-coated graphene covered D-shape fibre as both saturable absorber and polarizer
Author :
Ran Zheng ; Lilin Yi ; Weixiong Li ; Haiyan Nan ; Zhenghua Ni ; Weisheng Hu
Author_Institution :
State Key Lab. of Adv. Opt. Commun. Syst. & Networks, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., Shanghai, China
Abstract :
We achieved 51-nm bandwidth noise-like pulse using a polarized graphene saturable absorber made of gold-coated graphene on D-shape fibre. By launching the high energy noise-like pulse into high nonlinear fibre, 1000-nm wide supercontinuum spectrum was obtained.
Keywords :
gold; graphene; nanophotonics; optical fibres; optical noise; optical polarisers; optical pulse generation; optical saturable absorption; supercontinuum generation; Au-C; gold-coated graphene covered D-shape fibre; high nonlinear fibre; noise-like pulse generation; optical polarizer; optical saturable absorber; supercontinuum spectrum; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Graphene; Laser mode locking; Laser noise; Optical fiber sensors; Optical fibers; Optical pulse generation; Graphene; Noise-like pulse; Supercontinuum Spectrum;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communications and Networks (ICOCN), 2014 13th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Suzhou
DOI :
10.1109/ICOCN.2014.6987137
