Graphene Q-switched, tunable fiber laser
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2015-05-20 v1 Materials Science
Abstract
We demonstrate a wideband-tunable Q-switched fiber laser exploiting a graphene saturable absorber. We get ~2us pulses, tunable between 1522 and 1555nm with up to~40nJ energy. This is a simple and low-cost light source for metrology, environmental sensing and biomedical diagnostics.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1011.0115,
title = {Graphene Q-switched, tunable fiber laser},
author = {D. Popa and Z. Sun and T. Hasan and F. Torrisi and F. Wang and A. C. Ferrari},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.0115},
year = {2015}
}