• 文献标题:   A compact graphene Q-switched erbium-doped fiber laser using optical circulator and tunable fiber Bragg grating
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LI HP, XIA HD, WANG ZG, ZHANG XX, CHEN YF, ZHANG SJ, TANG XG, LIU Y
  • 作者关键词:   fiber laser, qswitching, wavelength tunable operation, graphene saturable absorber
  • 出版物名称:   CHINESE PHYSICS B
  • ISSN:   1674-1056 EI 1741-4199
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Elect Sci Technol China
  • 被引频次:   15
  • DOI:   10.1088/1674-1056/23/2/024209
  • 出版年:   2014

▎ 摘  要

We demonstrate a passively Q-switched tunable erbium-doped fiber laser (EDFL) based on graphene as a saturable absorber (SA). A three-port optical circulator (OC) and a strain-induced tunable fiber Bragg grating (TFBG) are used as the two end mirrors in an all-fiber linear cavity. The Q-switched EDFL has a low pump threshold of 23.8 mW. The pulse repetition rate of the fiber laser can be widely changed from 9.3 kHz to 69.7 kHz by increasing the pump power from 23.8 mW to 219.9 mW. The minimum pulse duration is 1.7 mu s and the highest pulse energy is 25.4 nJ. The emission wavelength of the laser can be tuned from 1560.43 nm to 1566.27 nm by changing the central wavelength of the strain-induced TFBG.