• 文献标题:   Broadband Graphene Saturable Absorber for Pulsed Fiber Lasers at 1, 1.5, and 2 mu m
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   FU B, HUA Y, XIAO XS, ZHU HW, SUN ZP, YANG CX
  • 作者关键词:   graphene saturable absorber, modelocked fiber laser, ybdoped fiber laser, erdoped fiber laser, tmdoped fiber laser
  • 出版物名称:   IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS
  • ISSN:   1077-260X EI 1558-4542
  • 通讯作者地址:   Tsinghua Univ
  • 被引频次:   73
  • DOI:   10.1109/JSTQE.2014.2302361
  • 出版年:   2014

▎ 摘  要

Ultrafast fiber lasers with broad spectral coverage are in great demand for a variety of applications, such as spectroscopy, and biomedical diagnosis. Graphene is an ideal ultrawide-band saturable absorber. We report broadband (up to similar to 1000 nm) ultrafast pulse generation from three fiber lasers mode-locked by a single graphene saturable absorber device. The mode-locked pulses were based on Yb-, Er-and Tm: Ho-doped fiber lasers at the central wavelength of 1035, 1564, and 1908 nm, respectively. The maximum output energy is up to 16.2 nJ at 1908 nm. It is the first time that ultrafast fiber lasers covering 1, 1.5, and 2 mu m spectral region are mode-locked with a single graphene device. Our results validate the intrinsic broadband operation property of graphene devices for all major fiber laser wavelengths from 1 to 2 mu m.