All-fiber Ho-doped mode-locked oscillator based on a graphene saturable absorber

Opt Lett. 2016 Jun 1;41(11):2592-5. doi: 10.1364/OL.41.002592.

Abstract

In this Letter, we demonstrate a graphene mode-locked, all-fiber Ho-doped fiber laser generating 1.3 nJ energy pulses directly from the oscillator. The graphene used as a saturable absorber was obtained via chemical vapor deposition on copper substrate and immersed in a poly(methyl methacrylate) support. The laser generated ultrashort soliton pulses at 2080 nm with bandwidth up to 6.1 nm. The influence of the output coupling ratio and the SA modulation depth on the mode-locking performance was also investigated.