Abstract
Atomic layer graphene possesses wavelength-insensitive ultrafast saturable absorption, which can be exploited as a "full-band" mode locker. Taking advantage of the wide band saturable absorption of the graphene, we demonstrate experimentally that wide range (1570-1600 nm) continuous wavelength tunable dissipative solitons could be formed in an erbium doped fiber laser mode locked with few layer graphene.
- Publication:
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Applied Physics Letters
- Pub Date:
- March 2010
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1003.0154
- Bibcode:
- 2010ApPhL..96k1112Z
- Keywords:
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- erbium;
- fibre lasers;
- graphene;
- high-speed optical techniques;
- laser mode locking;
- laser modes;
- laser tuning;
- optical saturable absorption;
- optical solitons;
- 42.55.Wd;
- 42.65.Re;
- 42.81.Dp;
- 42.65.Tg;
- 42.60.Fc;
- Fiber lasers;
- Ultrafast processes;
- optical pulse generation and pulse compression;
- Propagation scattering and losses;
- solitons;
- Optical solitons;
- nonlinear guided waves;
- Modulation tuning and mode locking;
- Physics - Atomic Physics;
- Physics - Optics
- E-Print:
- Applied Physics Letters 2010