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

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Mary, Rose 
Brown, Graeme 
Beecher, Stephen J 
Milana, Silvia 

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.

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Keywords

Energy Transfer, Equipment Design, Equipment Failure Analysis, Graphite, Lasers, Lenses, Membranes, Artificial, Surface Plasmon Resonance

Journal Title

Opt Express

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Journal ISSN

1094-4087
1094-4087

Volume Title

21

Publisher

The Optical Society
Sponsorship
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/G030480/1)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/K01711X/1)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/K017144/1)