Wideband tunable, graphene-mode locked, ultrafast laser
Other Condensed Matter
2010-09-13 v1 Optics
Abstract
We report a tunable ultrafast fiber laser mode-locked with a graphene saturable absorber. The linear dispersions of the Dirac electrons in graphene enable wideband tunability. We get ~1ps pulses, tunable between 1525 and 1559nm, demonstrating graphene as a broadband saturable absorber.
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@article{arxiv.1003.4714,
title = {Wideband tunable, graphene-mode locked, ultrafast laser},
author = {Z. Sun and D. Popa and T. Hasan and F. Torrisi and F. Wang and E. J. R. Kelleher and J. C. Travers and A. C. Ferrari},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.4714},
year = {2010}
}