Ultrafast fiber lasers with broad bandwidth are in great demand for a variety of applications, such as spectroscopy, biomedical diagnosis, and optical communications. Sub 200 fs pulses are required for ultrafast spectroscopy with high temporal resolution. Graphene is an ideal ultrawide-band saturable absorber. We report the generation of 174 fs pulses from a graphene-based fiber laser.

Topics
Phonons, Optical communications, Graphene, Polymers, Raman spectroscopy, Carbon based materials, Nanotubes, Spectrum analyzers, Lasers, Chemical elements
© 2010 American Institute of Physics.
2010
American Institute of Physics
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