Reduced graphene oxide wrapped on microfiber and its light-control-light characteristics

Reduced graphene oxide (rGO) sheet wrapped on the tapered region of microfiber is demonstrated to enhance the interaction between rGO and strong evanescent field of optical fiber. The 405 nm and 980 nm lasers are employed to illuminate the rGO to investigate the response characteristics of the optical transmitted power (lambda = 1550 nm) in the MF. The transmitted optical power of the MF with rGO changes with similar to 1.7 dB relative variation when the violet light is ranging from 0 mW to 12 mW (similar to 0.21dB/mW) in the outside-pumped experiment. And in the inside-pumped experiment, the change of the 980 nm laser power from 0 mW to 156.5 mW makes similar to 6 dB relative variation power of the transmitted optical powers of the MF with rGO. These results indicate the optical transmitted power of the MF with wrapped rGO can be manipulated by the 405 and 980 nm light (order of mW), which signifies the device can potentially be applied as all optically and versatilely controllable devices. (C) 2017 Optical Society of America