• DocumentCode
    1770729
  • Title

    Graphene-based passive Q-switching of a Tm3++:ZBLAN short-infrared waveguide laser

  • Author

    Ju Han Lee ; Gross, S. ; Cunning, B.V. ; Brown, C.L. ; Kielpinski, D. ; Monro, Tanya M. ; Lancaster, D.G.

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Seoul, Seoul, South Korea
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    8-13 June 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We report a passively Q-switched 1.9 μm thulium ZBLAN waveguide laser based on an extended cavity containing a flake-graphene saturable absorber film. The 790nm diode-laser-pumped laser produces up to 6 mW with ~1.4 μs pulses at ~25 kHz.
  • Keywords
    Q-switching; aluminium compounds; barium compounds; graphene; lanthanum; laser cavity resonators; nanophotonics; optical pulse generation; optical pumping; optical saturable absorption; semiconductor lasers; sodium compounds; solid lasers; thulium; waveguide lasers; zirconium compounds; C; ZBLAN:Tm; diode-laserpumped laser; extended cavity; flake-graphene saturable absorber film; graphene-based passive Q-switching; optical pulse generation; thulium ZBLAN short-infrared waveguide laser; wavelength 1.9 mum; wavelength 709 nm; Films; Graphene; Laser excitation; Optical waveguides; Pump lasers; Semiconductor lasers; Waveguide lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6989072
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1770729