Mode locking of ceramic Nd:yttrium aluminum garnet with graphene as a saturable absorber
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- 18 January 2010
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 96 (3) , 031106
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3292018
Abstract
The mode-locking of a ceramic Nd:yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG) solid-state laser (SSL) with solution processed graphene as saturable absorber (SA) was demonstrated. Transform-limited pulses with duration of 4 ps centered at 1064 nm were generated for a nondispersion compensated Nd:YAG SSL. -scan studies revealed that the graphene SA has a saturation intensity of and a normalized modulation depth of 17.4%. Our results illustrate the potential of using graphene as a mode locker for SSLs.
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