1.5 GHz picosecond pulse generation from a monolithic waveguide laser with a graphene-film saturable output coupler

Opt Express. 2013 Apr 8;21(7):7943-50. doi: 10.1364/OE.21.007943.

Abstract

We fabricate a saturable absorber mirror by coating a graphene- film on an output coupler mirror. This is then used to obtain Q-switched mode-locking from a diode-pumped linear cavity channel waveguide laser inscribed in Ytterbium-doped Bismuthate Glass. The laser produces 1.06 ps pulses at ~1039 nm, with a 1.5 GHz repetition rate, 48% slope efficiency and 202 mW average output power. This performance is due to the combination of the graphene saturable absorber and the high quality optical waveguides in the laser glass.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Energy Transfer
  • Equipment Design
  • Equipment Failure Analysis
  • Graphite / chemistry*
  • Lasers*
  • Lenses*
  • Membranes, Artificial*
  • Surface Plasmon Resonance / instrumentation*

Substances

  • Membranes, Artificial
  • Graphite