All-polarization-maintaining, stretched-pulse Tm-doped fiber laser, mode-locked by a graphene saturable absorber

Opt Lett. 2017 Apr 15;42(8):1592-1595. doi: 10.1364/OL.42.001592.

Abstract

In this Letter, we demonstrate an all-polarization-maintaining, stretched-pulse Tm-doped fiber laser generating ∼200 fs pulses centered at 1945 nm. As a saturable absorber, a graphene/poly(methyl methacrylate) composite was used. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of stretched-pulse operation of a graphene-based fiber laser at 2 μm.