Q-switched pulse generation from an all-f iber distributed Bragg reflector laser using graphene as saturable absorber

[1] W. H. Loh, B. N. Samson, L. Dong, G. J. Cowle, and K. Hsu, J. Lightwave Technol. 16, 114 (1998).

[2] G. Bonfrate, F. Vaninetti, and F. Negrisolo, IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 10, 1109 (1998).

[3] S. Pradhan, G. E. Town, and K. J. Grant, IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 18, 1741 (2006).

[4] W. H. Chung, H. Y. Tam, M. S. Demokan, P. K. A. Wai, and C. Lu, IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 13, 951 (2001).

[5] W. Liu, T. Guo, A. C-L. Wong, H.-Y. Tam, and S. He, Opt. Express 18, 17834 (2010).

[6] R. Slavik, I. Castonguay, S. La Rochelle, and S. Doucet, IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 16, 1017 (2004).

[7] G. A. Ball and W. W. Morey, Opt. Lett. 17, 420 (1992).

[8] S. Pradhan, G. E. Town, and K. J. Grant, Electron. Lett. 42, 963 (2006).

[9] S. Pradhan, G. E. Town, D. Wilson, and K. J. Grant, Opt. Lett. 31, 2963 (2006).

[10] B. Yao, X. Liu, X. Yu, X. Duan, Y. Ju, and Y. Wang, Chin. Opt. Lett. 11, 031405 (2013).

[11] Y. K. Yap, R. M. De La Rue, C. H. Pua, S. W. Harun, and H. Ahmad, Chin. Opt. Lett. 10, 041405 (2012).

[12] P. P. Vasil’ev, I. H. White, and J. Gowar, Rep. Prog. Phys. 63, 1997 (2000).

[13] B. J. Thedrez, S. E. Saddow, Y. Q. Liu, C. Wood, R. Wilson, and C. H. Lee, IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 5, 19 (1993).

[14] M. Xia, C. H. Kwok, R. V. Penty, I. H. White, K. H. Hasler, B. Sumpf, and G. Erbert, in Proceedings of CLEO/QELS 2009 1 (2009).

[15] F. Bonaccorso, Z. Sun, T. Hasan, and A. C. Ferrari, Nat. Photon. 4, 611 (2010).

[16] D. Popa, Z. Sun, T. Hasan, F. Torrisi, F. Wang, and A. C. Ferrari, App. Phy. Lett. 98, 073106 (2011).

[17] W. Cao, H. Wang, A. Luo, Z. Luo, and W. Xu, Laser Phys. Lett. 9, 54 (2011).

[18] Z. Luo, M. Zhou, J. Weng, G. Huang, H. Xu, C. Ye, and Z. Cai, Opt. Lett. 35, 3709 (2011).

[19] L. Wei, D. Zhou, H. Fen, and W. Liu, IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 24, 309 (2012).

[20] B. Dong, J. Hu, C. Y. Liaw, J. Hao, and C. Yu, Appl. Opt. 50, 1442 (2011).

[21] A. Martinez, K. Kazuyuki, B. Xu, and S. Yamashita, Opt. Express 18, 23054 (2010).

[22] F. Wang, A. G. Rozhin, V. Scardaci, Z. Sun, F. Hennrich, I. H. White, W. I. Milne, and A. C. Ferrari, Nat. Nanotechnol. 3, 738 (2008).

[23] H. Zhang, D. Tang, R. J. Knize, L. Zhao, Q. Bao, and K. P. Loh, App. Phy. Lett. 96, 111112 (2010).

[24] Z. Sun, T. Hasan, F. Torrisi, D. Popa, G. Privitera, F. Wang, F. Bonaccorso, D. M. Basko, and A. C. Ferrari, ACS Nano 4, 803 (2010).

[25] P. N. Kean, B. D. Sinclair, K. Smith, W. Sibbett, C. J. Rowe, and D. C. J. Reid, J. Mod. Opt. 35, 397 (1988).

[26] A. E. Siegman, Lasers (University Science Books, Mill Valley, 1986).

[27] O. Svelto, Principles of Lasers (Plenum, New York, 1998).

CLP Journals