Graphene-based Q-switched pulsed fiber laser in a linear configuration
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2012
Abstract
A pulsed laser system is realized with graphene employed as a Q-switch. The graphene is exfoliated from its solution using an optical deposition and the optical tweezer effect. A fiber ferrule that already has the graphene deposited on it is inserted into an erbium-ytterbium laser (EYL) system with linear cavity configuration. We successfully demonstrate a pulsed EYL with a pulse duration of approximately 5.9 μs and a repetition rate of 20.0 kHz.
Keywords
Erbium, Fiber lasers, Q switching, Ytterbium
Divisions
fac_eng,PHYSICS
Publication Title
Chinese Optics Letters
Volume
10
Issue
4
Publisher
Optical Society of America
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