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Graphene q-switched Yb: phosphate glass channel waveguide laser

Graphene q-switched Yb: phosphate glass channel waveguide laser
Graphene q-switched Yb: phosphate glass channel waveguide laser
Q-switched lasers can generate high-energy pulses that can have applications in medicine, material processing and defence. Waveguide lasers have several attractive features such as a low laser threshold and a high slope efficiency, provided that the propagation losses are kept low, compactness and mass-producibility. Ion-exchange is a simple and cheap technique to fabricate loss-loss waveguides in glass, with mode-locked operation being demonstrated in ion-exchanged Yb:phosphate glass lasers using a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM). Using graphene as a saturable absorber has several key advantages over SESAMs such as a broad wavelength operating range, cost-effectiveness and ease of fabrication. Graphene has previously been used as a saturable absorber to demonstrate Q-switched mode-locking in a femtosecond-written glass waveguide laser and Q-switched operation in a carbon-irradiated Nd:YAG ceramic channel waveguide laser. In this paper we present an ion-exchanged Yb:phosphate glass waveguide laser, Q-switched using a graphene saturable absorber.
Choudhary, A.
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Dhingra, B.D.
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Pradeesh, K.
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Pradeesh, K.
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Shepherd, D.P.
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Choudhary, A., Dhingra, B.D., Pradeesh, K. and Shepherd, D.P. (2014) Graphene q-switched Yb: phosphate glass channel waveguide laser. EPS-QEOD Europhoton Conference, Switzerland. 24 Aug 2014.

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Abstract

Q-switched lasers can generate high-energy pulses that can have applications in medicine, material processing and defence. Waveguide lasers have several attractive features such as a low laser threshold and a high slope efficiency, provided that the propagation losses are kept low, compactness and mass-producibility. Ion-exchange is a simple and cheap technique to fabricate loss-loss waveguides in glass, with mode-locked operation being demonstrated in ion-exchanged Yb:phosphate glass lasers using a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM). Using graphene as a saturable absorber has several key advantages over SESAMs such as a broad wavelength operating range, cost-effectiveness and ease of fabrication. Graphene has previously been used as a saturable absorber to demonstrate Q-switched mode-locking in a femtosecond-written glass waveguide laser and Q-switched operation in a carbon-irradiated Nd:YAG ceramic channel waveguide laser. In this paper we present an ion-exchanged Yb:phosphate glass waveguide laser, Q-switched using a graphene saturable absorber.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 24 August 2014
Additional Information: TuP-T2-P-05
Venue - Dates: EPS-QEOD Europhoton Conference, Switzerland, 2014-08-24 - 2014-08-24
Organisations: Optoelectronics Research Centre

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Local EPrints ID: 369660
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/369660
PURE UUID: 0933ee7f-2948-44f2-9c1d-c32dbeaa2208
ORCID for D.P. Shepherd: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-4561-8184

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Date deposited: 14 Oct 2014 10:18
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 02:40

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Author: A. Choudhary
Author: B.D. Dhingra
Author: K. Pradeesh
Author: D.P. Shepherd ORCID iD

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