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Flexible graphene saturable absorber on two-layer structure for tunable mode-locked soliton fiber laser

Authors :
Wen-Shuai Jiang
Wei Xin
Fei Xing
Yange Liu
Qiwen Sheng
Ligang Huang
Jianguo Tian
Peng Wang
Zhi-Bo Liu
Ming Feng
Source :
Optics Express. 22:10239
Publication Year :
2014
Publisher :
The Optical Society, 2014.

Abstract

Using a two-layer structure consisting of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) to support graphene grown by chemical vapor deposition (CVD), we demonstrate a flexible integrated graphene saturable absorber (SA) on microfiber for passive mode-locked soliton fiber laser. This method can optimize the light-graphene interaction by using evanescent field in the integration structure. Moreover, the fiber laser with the in-line microfiber-to-graphene SA can realize the tunabilities of both the 3dB bandwidth of output optical spectrum and the pulse width of soliton. This tunable mode-locked soliton laser has potential applications in optical communication, optical microscopy, and so on.

Details

ISSN :
10944087
Volume :
22
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Optics Express
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....198d2b2b648d77d9b75ca4f006a65332
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1364/oe.22.010239