• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 4, Issue 2, 0041 (2016)
Weixiong Li1, Lilin Yi1、*, Ran Zheng1, Zhenghua Ni2, and Weisheng Hu1
Author Affiliations
  • 1The State Key Lab of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Shanghai Jiao Tong University,Shanghai 200240, China
  • 2Department of Physics, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
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    DOI: 10.1364/prj.4.000041 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Weixiong Li, Lilin Yi, Ran Zheng, Zhenghua Ni, Weisheng Hu. Fabrication and application of a graphene polarizer with strong saturable absorption[J]. Photonics Research, 2016, 4(2): 0041 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    By transferring 100 nm gold-coated CVD monolayer graphene onto the well-polished surface of D-shaped fiber, we achieve a graphene in-line polarizer with a high polarization extinction ratio of ~27 dB and low insertion loss of 5 dB at 1550 nm, meanwhile achieving a strong saturable absorption effect of 14%. The manufacture of thisgraphene in-line polarizer also simplifies the graphene transfer process. To explore the potential applications of the new device, we also demonstrate noise-like pulse generation and supercontinuum spectrum generation. By launching the designed graphene device into a fiber ring laser cavity, 51 nm bandwidth noise-like pulse is obtained. Then, launching the high-power noise-like pulse into high nonlinear fiber, a 1000 nm wide supercontinuum spectrum is obtained, which is favorable for sensing and nonlinearities scientific fields.
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    Weixiong Li, Lilin Yi, Ran Zheng, Zhenghua Ni, Weisheng Hu. Fabrication and application of a graphene polarizer with strong saturable absorption[J]. Photonics Research, 2016, 4(2): 0041
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