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Effects of flake size on mode-locking behavior for flake-graphene saturable absorber mirrors

Optics 2016-04-15 v1

Abstract

After advent of graphene as a saturable absorber many experiments have been conducted to produce short pulse duration pulses. Here, we have measured the properties of flake-graphene saturable absorber mirrors of various flake sizes dependent on fabrication technique. These mirrors enabled us to obtain a large mode-locking bandwidth of 16nm in an erbium-doped fiber laser. Mirrors with large flake size and multi-layered thickness induce strong pulse shaping and reflect mode-locked train of pulses with very large bandwidths.

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@article{arxiv.1604.04113,
  title  = {Effects of flake size on mode-locking behavior for flake-graphene saturable absorber mirrors},
  author = {M. I. Hussain and B. V. Cunning and L. S. Booth and M. J. Petrasiunas and C. L. Brown and D. Kielpinski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.04113},
  year   = {2016}
}