A compact graphene Q-switched erbium-doped fiber laser using optical circulator and tunable fiber Bragg grating

作者：Li He-Ping^*; Xia Han-Ding; Wang Ze-Gao; Zhang Xiao-Xia; Chen Yuan-Fu; Zhang Shang-Jian; Tang Xiong-Gui; Liu Yong

来源：Chinese Physics B, 2014, 23(2): 024209.

DOI：10.1088/1674-1056/23/2/024209

• fiber lasers
• Q-switching
• wavelength tunable operation
• graphene saturable absorber

We demonstrate a passively Q-switched tunable erbium-doped fiber laser (EDFL) based on graphene as a saturable absorber (SA). A three-port optical circulator (OC) and a strain-induced tunable fiber Bragg grating (TFBG) are used as the two end mirrors in an all-fiber linear cavity. The Q-switched EDFL has a low pump threshold of 23.8 mW. The pulse repetition rate of the fiber laser can be widely changed from 9.3 kHz to 69.7 kHz by increasing the pump power from 23.8 mW to 219.9 mW. The minimum pulse duration is 1.7 mu s and the highest pulse energy is 25.4 nJ. The emission wavelength of the laser can be tuned from 1560.43 nm to 1566.27 nm by changing the central wavelength of the strain-induced TFBG.

• 出版日期2014-2
• 单位电子薄膜与集成器件国家重点实验室; 电子科技大学