Journal
IEEE PHOTONICS JOURNAL
Volume 5, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2013.2281609
Keywords
Graphene-based saturable absorber; zirconia-based erbium-doped fiber; Mach-Zehnder filter; spectrum tunable mode-locked
Funding
- University of Malaya under HIR [UM.C/625/1/HIR/MOHE/SC/01, UM.C/625/1/HIR/MOHE/SCI/29]
- ERGS [ER006-2013A, PV031/2012A, RU0002/2013]
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An ultrafast spectrum-tunable fiber laser using a tunable Mach-Zehnder filter (TMZF) and a graphene-based saturable absorber as a mode-locking element is proposed and demonstrated. The proposed laser uses a 2-m-long zirconia-erbium-doped fiber (Zr-EDF) as the primary gain medium. The Zr-EDF has a dopant concentration of 3800 ppm/wt and an absorption rate of 18.3 dB/m at 980 nm. The proposed laser is able to generate mode-locked solitons, with the central wavelength of the spectrum tunable from 1551 to 1570 nm and covering a wavelength range of about 19 nm. Sidebands are observed with 3-dB bandwidths and pulsewidths of between 3.4 and 3.6 nm and from 730 to 780 fs, respectively, as well as a time-bandwidth product between 0.32 and 0.33. The generated pulse yields an average output power value of similar to 1.4 mW, pulse energy of similar to 128 pJ, and repetition rate of similar to 10.9 MHz. This is the first time, to the knowledge of the authors, that a graphene-based mode-locked spectrum-tunable fiber laser is demonstrated using a TMZF.
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