Graphene Q-switched, tunable fiber laser

D. Popa, Z. Sun, Tawfique Hasan, Felice Torrisi, Fengqiu Wang, Andrea C. Ferrari

Applied Physics Letters · 2011 · 453 citations · 29 references

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We demonstrate a wideband-tunable Q-switched fiber laser exploiting a graphene saturable absorber. We get ∼2 μs pulses, tunable between 1522 and 1555 nm with up to ∼40 nJ energy. This is a simple and low-cost light source for metrology, environmental sensing, and biomedical diagnostics.

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