Experimental study on the multisoliton pattern formation in an erbium-doped fiber laser passively mode-locked by graphene saturable absorber

Qi Feng; Yu Chen; Chujun Zhao; Ying Li; Jianguo Wen; Han Zhang

doi:10.1117/1.OE.52.4.044201

15 April 2013 Experimental study on the multisoliton pattern formation in an erbium-doped fiber laser passively mode-locked by graphene saturable absorber

Qi Feng, Yu Chen, Chujun Zhao, Ying Li, Jianguo Wen, Han Zhang

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Funded by: Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province

Optical Engineering, Vol. 52, Issue 4, 044201 (April 2013). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.52.4.044201

Abstract

We demonstrate an erbium-doped fiber laser passively mode-locked by few layers of graphene prepared by the mechanical exfoliation of the high oriented pyrolytic graphite through the Scotch-tape method. This all-fiber ring cavity delivered a pulse train with a repetition rate of 1.646 MHz and pulse duration of 1.656 ps. By continuously adjusting the laser cavity parameters, one can observe various soliton patterns, such as ordered-, chaotic-, bunched-, and harmonic-multisoliton state. This evidenced that a mode-locked fiber laser based on graphene saturable absorber indeed provided a well-controlled nonlinear optics platform for soliton dynamics study.

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Qi Feng, Yu Chen, Chujun Zhao, Ying Li, Jianguo Wen, and Han Zhang "Experimental study on the multisoliton pattern formation in an erbium-doped fiber laser passively mode-locked by graphene saturable absorber," Optical Engineering 52(4), 044201 (15 April 2013). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.52.4.044201

Published: 15 April 2013

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