Graphene-filled hollow optical fiber saturable absorber for efficient soliton fiber laser modelocking

Sun Young Choi; Dae Kun Cho; Yong Won Song; Kyunghwan Oh; Kihong Kim; Fabian Rotermund; Dong Il Yeom

doi:10.1364/OE.20.005652

Graphene-filled hollow optical fiber saturable absorber for efficient soliton fiber laser modelocking

Sun Young Choi, Dae Kun Cho, Yong Won Song, Kyunghwan Oh, Kihong Kim, Fabian Rotermund, Dong Il Yeom

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We demonstrate a novel in-line saturable absorber based on hollow optical fiber (HOF) filled with graphene composite for high power operation of mode-locked fiber laser. Evanescent field of guided mode propagating in few centimeter-long HOF interacts with the graphene/polyvinyl acetate (PVAc) composite, which enables robust and efficient nonlinear absorption leading to stable passive mode-locking. The mode-locked fiber laser generates soliton pulses with 5.9-nm spectral bandwidth and its maximum output power is measured up to 80 mW. We also observe passive harmonic mode-locking of soliton laser delivering stable pulses with a repetition rate of 506.9 MHz at 33rd harmonics.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	5652-5657
Number of pages	6
Journal	Optics Express
Volume	20
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.20.005652
Publication status	Published - 2012 Feb 27

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Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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Graphene-filled hollow optical fiber saturable absorber for efficient soliton fiber laser modelocking

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