Mode-locked thulium ytterbium co-doped fiber laser with a graphene saturable absorber

• Main Authors: Babar, I.M., Paul, M.C., Das, S., Dhar, A., Ahmad, Harith, Harun, Sulaiman Wadi
• Format: Article
• Published: Photonics Society of Poland 2016
• Subjects: Q Science (General); QC Physics; TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/18424/; https://doi.org/10.4302/plp.2016.4.05

A passively mode-locked Thulium Ytterbium co-doped fiber laser (TYDFL) is demonstrated using a graphene polyvinyl alcohol saturable absorber as the mode-locker. With 980nm multimode pumping, the laser operates at 1942.95nm with repetition rate of 11.76MHz. The pulse width is calculated to be around...