All-fiber passively mode-locked thulium-doped fiber ring laser using optically deposited graphene saturable absorbers

Qingqing Wang; Tong Chen; Botao Zhang; Mingshan Li; Yongfeng Lu; Kevin P. Chen

doi:10.1063/1.4800036

All-fiber passively mode-locked thulium-doped fiber ring laser using optically deposited graphene saturable absorbers

Qingqing Wang, Tong Chen, Botao Zhang, Mingshan Li, Yongfeng Lu, Kevin P. Chen

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An all-fiber passively mode-locked thulium-doped fiber ring oscillator is constructed using optically deposited few layer graphene micro-sheets as the saturable absorber (SA). The mode-lock operation was achieved by 130-mW pump power at 1.5-μm. The fiber oscillator produces 2.1-ps soliton pulse output with 80-pJ per pulse energy. The 3-dB bandwidth of the laser output was measured as 2.2-nm. The RF signal-to-noise ratio of 50-dB and sub 20-Hz 3-dB bandwidth of the laser output confirms the stable laser operation with low time jittering. This paper shows that graphene can be an effective saturable absorber for the development of mid-IR fiber mode-locked laser.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	131117
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	102
Issue number	13
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4800036
State	Published - Apr 1 2013
Externally published	Yes

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