Active synchronization and modulation of fiber lasers with a graphene electro-optic modulator

Diao Li; Hui Xue; Yadong Wang; Mei Qi; Wonjae Kim; Changfeng Li; Juha Riikonen; Zhaoyu Ren; Jintao Bai; Harri Lipsanen; Zhipei Sun

doi:10.1364/OL.43.003497

Active synchronization and modulation of fiber lasers with a graphene electro-optic modulator

Diao Li
, Hui Xue
, Yadong Wang
, Mei Qi
, Wonjae Kim
, Changfeng Li
, Juha Riikonen
, Zhaoyu Ren
, Jintao Bai^*
, Harri Lipsanen
, Zhipei Sun

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We report the synchronization of two actively Q-switched fiber lasers operating at 1.5 μm and 2 μm with a shared broadband graphene electro-optic modulator. Two graphene monolayer sheets separated with a high-k HfO₂ dielectric layer are configured to enable broadband light modulation. The graphene electro-optic modulator is shared by two optical fiber laser cavities (i.e., an erbium-doped fiber laser cavity and a thulium/holmium-codoped fiber laser cavity) to actively Q-switch the two lasers, resulting in stable synchronized pulses at 1.5 μm and 2 μm with a repetition rate ranging from 46 kHz to 56 kHz.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3497-3500
Journal	Optics Letters
Volume	43
Issue number	15
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.43.003497
Publication status	Published - 1 Aug 2018
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

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European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) (631610, 696656); Academy of Finland (276376, 284548, 295777, 304666, 312297, 312551, 314810); China Scholarship Council (CSC); International Science and Technology Cooperation Project (2014DFR10780); National Science Foundation for Young Scholars of China (61505162); Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province of China (2016JQ6059); Foundation of the Education Committee of Shaanxi Province (14JK1756).

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