Soliton Mode-Locked Erbium-Doped Fiber Laser Using Non-Conductive Graphene Oxide Paper

Author

Ismail, Muhammad Ali ; Ahmad, Harith ; Harun, Sulaiman Wadi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Volume

50

Issue

2

fYear

2014

fDate

Feb. 2014

Firstpage

85

Lastpage

87

Abstract

A femtosecond mode-locked soliton erbium-doped fiber laser (EDFL) is demonstrated using a commercially available nonconductive graphene oxide paper as a saturable absorber. The paper that is sandwiched between two fiber ferrules acts as a mode-locker. The EDFL generates a soliton mode-locked pulse train with a repetition rate of 15.62 MHz and pulsewidth of 680 fs. It is observed that the fiber laser has a low pulsing threshold as well as low damage threshold. The pulse energy and peak power are 0.0085 nJ and 11.85 W, respectively. The easy fabrication of graphene oxide paper should promote its potential application in ultrafast photonics.

Keywords

erbium; fibre lasers; graphene; laser mode locking; nanophotonics; optical fabrication; optical pulse generation; optical saturable absorption; optical solitons; energy 0.0085 nJ; femtosecond EDFL; fiber ferrules; laser output power; low damage threshold; low pulsing threshold; nonconductive graphene oxide paper; power 11.85 W; pulse energy; saturable absorber; soliton mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser; soliton mode-locked pulse train generation; time 680 fs; ultrafast photonics; Absorption; Cavity resonators; Graphene; Laser mode locking; Ring lasers; Solitons; Ultrafast optics; Fiber lasers; laser mode locking; nanophotonics; optical pulses; optical solitions; ring lasers; ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9197

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JQE.2013.2295199

Filename

6685847