Linearly Polarized 1180-nm Raman Fiber Laser Mode Locked by Graphene

Lei Zhang; Gaozhong Wang; Jinmeng Hu; Jianhua Wang; Jintai Fan; Jun Wang; Yan Feng

doi:10.1109/JPHOT.2012.2218231

IEEE Photonics Journal (Jan 2012)

Linearly Polarized 1180-nm Raman Fiber Laser Mode Locked by Graphene

Lei Zhang,
Gaozhong Wang,
Jinmeng Hu,
Jianhua Wang,
Jintai Fan,
Jun Wang,
Yan Feng

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Lei Zhang: <formula formulatype="inline"><tex Notation="TeX">$^{1}$</tex></formula>Shanghai Key Laboratory of Solid State Laser and Application and Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
Gaozhong Wang: Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Jinmeng Hu: Shanghai Key Laboratory of Solid State Laser and Application, and Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
Jianhua Wang: Shanghai Key Laboratory of Solid State Laser and Application, and Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
Jintai Fan: Key Laboratory of Materials for High Power Laser, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
Jun Wang: Key Laboratory of Materials for High Power Laser, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
Yan Feng: Shanghai Key Laboratory of Solid State Laser and Application, and Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOT.2012.2218231
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 4, no. 5
pp. 1809 – 1815

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In this paper, we demonstrate a linearly polarized 1180-nm passively mode-locked Raman fiber laser using graphene-based saturable absorber (SA). The pump source is a linearly polarized ytterbium-doped fiber laser at 1120 nm. Stable nanosecond mode-locked pulses with a repetition rate of 0.4 MHz are generated. The combination of Raman technology and the graphene-based ultrawide bandwidth SA offer a prospect of real wavelength-versatile mode-locked laser source. The mode-locked laser operating at 1180 nm is suitable for frequency doubling to yellow light after amplification.

Published in IEEE Photonics Journal

ISSN: 1943-0655 (Online)
Publisher: IEEE
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Technology: Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General): Applied optics. Photonics; Science: Physics: Optics. Light
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