A stable, wideband tunable, near transform-limited, graphene-mode-locked, ultrafast laser

Z. Sun, D. Popa, Tawfique Hasan, Felice Torrisi, Fengqiu Wang, E. J. R. Kelleher, John C. Travers, Valeria Nicolosi, Andrea C. Ferrari

Nano Research · 2010 · 371 citations · 64 references

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We report an ultrafast laser mode-locked with a graphene saturable absorber. The linear dispersions of the Dirac electrons in graphene enable wideband tunability. We get ∼1 ps pulses, tunable between 1525 and 1559 nm, with stable mode-locking, insensitive to environmental perturbations.

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