Monolayer graphene saturable absorber with sandwich structure for ultrafast solid-state laser

Hongtong Zhu; Lina Zhao; Jie Liu; Shicai Xu; Wei Cai; Shouzhen Jiang; Lihe Zheng; Liangbi Su; Jun Xu

doi:10.1117/1.OE.55.8.081304

18 December 2015 Monolayer graphene saturable absorber with sandwich structure for ultrafast solid-state laser

Hongtong Zhu, Lina Zhao, Jie Liu, Shicai Xu, Wei Cai, Shouzhen Jiang, Lihe Zheng, Liangbi Su, Jun Xu

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 55, Issue 8, 081304 (December 2015). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.55.8.081304

Abstract

The uniform-quality, large-area, monolayer graphene saturable absorber (SA) with sandwich structure was fabricated, tested, and successfully applied for the generation of diode-pumped Yb:Y₂SiO₅ mode-locked laser. Without extra negative dispersion elements, the shortest pulse with duration of ∼883 fs was obtained at 1042.6 nm with an output power of ∼1 W. These promising experimental results suggested that the low-cost, high-quality graphene SA could potentially be employed in practical, high-power, ultrafast mode-locking laser systems.

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Hongtong Zhu, Lina Zhao, Jie Liu, Shicai Xu, Wei Cai, Shouzhen Jiang, Lihe Zheng, Liangbi Su, and Jun Xu "Monolayer graphene saturable absorber with sandwich structure for ultrafast solid-state laser," Optical Engineering 55(8), 081304 (18 December 2015). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.55.8.081304

Published: 18 December 2015

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