11-GHz waveguide Nd:YAG laser CW mode-locked with single-layer graphene

We report stable, passive, continuous-wave (CW) mode-locking of a compact diode-pumped waveguide Nd:YAG laser with a single-layer graphene saturable absorber. The depressed cladding waveguide in the Nd:YAG crystal is fabricated with an ultrafast laser inscription method. The saturable absorber is fo...

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Autores principales: Okhrimchuk, Andrey G., Obraztsov, Petr A.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4459187/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26052678
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep11172
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description We report stable, passive, continuous-wave (CW) mode-locking of a compact diode-pumped waveguide Nd:YAG laser with a single-layer graphene saturable absorber. The depressed cladding waveguide in the Nd:YAG crystal is fabricated with an ultrafast laser inscription method. The saturable absorber is formed by direct deposition of CVD single-layer graphene on the output coupler. The few millimeter-long cavity provides generation of 16-ps pulses with repetition rates in the GHz range (up to 11.3 GHz) and 12 mW average power. Stable CW mode-locking operation is achieved by controlling the group delay dispersion in the laser cavity with a Gires–Tournois interferometer.
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spelling pubmed-44591872015-06-17 11-GHz waveguide Nd:YAG laser CW mode-locked with single-layer graphene Okhrimchuk, Andrey G. Obraztsov, Petr A. Sci Rep Article We report stable, passive, continuous-wave (CW) mode-locking of a compact diode-pumped waveguide Nd:YAG laser with a single-layer graphene saturable absorber. The depressed cladding waveguide in the Nd:YAG crystal is fabricated with an ultrafast laser inscription method. The saturable absorber is formed by direct deposition of CVD single-layer graphene on the output coupler. The few millimeter-long cavity provides generation of 16-ps pulses with repetition rates in the GHz range (up to 11.3 GHz) and 12 mW average power. Stable CW mode-locking operation is achieved by controlling the group delay dispersion in the laser cavity with a Gires–Tournois interferometer. Nature Publishing Group 2015-06-08 /pmc/articles/PMC4459187/ /pubmed/26052678 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep11172 Text en Copyright © 2015, Macmillan Publishers Limited http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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title_fullStr 11-GHz waveguide Nd:YAG laser CW mode-locked with single-layer graphene
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title_sort 11-ghz waveguide nd:yag laser cw mode-locked with single-layer graphene
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4459187/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26052678
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep11172
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