Effects of flake size on mode-locking behavior for flake-graphene saturable absorber mirrors
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Hussain, M
Cunning, B
Booth, LS
Petrasiunas, MJ
Brown, CL
Year published
2019
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After advent of graphene as a saturable absorber, it has been proved as a promising material to generate ultrafast laser pulses. Here, we have measured the properties of flake-graphene saturable absorber mirrors of various flake sizes, dependent on the fabrication technique. These mirrors enabled us to obtain the mode-locking bandwidth of 16 nm in an erbium-doped fiber laser. Mirrors with large flake size and multi-layered thickness induce strong pulse shaping and reflect wideband mode-locked pulse train.After advent of graphene as a saturable absorber, it has been proved as a promising material to generate ultrafast laser pulses. Here, we have measured the properties of flake-graphene saturable absorber mirrors of various flake sizes, dependent on the fabrication technique. These mirrors enabled us to obtain the mode-locking bandwidth of 16 nm in an erbium-doped fiber laser. Mirrors with large flake size and multi-layered thickness induce strong pulse shaping and reflect wideband mode-locked pulse train.
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Journal Title
Optik
Volume
198
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© 2019 Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence, which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited.
Subject
Atomic, molecular and optical physics
Science & Technology
Physical Sciences
Optics
Ultrafast pulse generation
Saturable absorber mirrors