Soliton Mode-Locked Erbium-Doped Fiber Laser Using Non-Conductive Graphene Oxide Paper
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-2-2014
Abstract
A femtosecond mode-locked soliton erbium-doped fiber laser (EDFL) is demonstrated using a commercially available nonconductive graphene oxide paper as a saturable absorber. The paper that is sandwiched between two fiber ferrules acts as a mode-locker. The EDFL generates a soliton mode-locked pulse train with a repetition rate of 15.62 MHz and pulsewidth of 680 fs. It is observed that the fiber laser has a low pulsing threshold as well as low damage threshold. The pulse energy and peak power are 0.0085 nJ and 11.85 W, respectively. The easy fabrication of graphene oxide paper should promote its potential application in ultrafast photonics.
Keywords
Fiber lasers, Laser mode locking, Nanophotonics, Optical pulses, Optical solitions, Ring lasers, Ultrafast optics
Divisions
fac_eng
Publication Title
IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics
Volume
50
Issue
2
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)