Electrically Tunable Nd:YAG Waveguide Laser Based on Graphene

Overview

Journal Sci Rep

Specialty Science

Date 2016 Nov 12

PMID 27833114

Authors

Linan Ma

Yang Tan

Shavkat Akhmadaliev

Shengqiang Zhou

Feng Chen

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Abstract

We demonstrate a tunable hybrid Graphene-Nd:YAG cladding waveguide laser exploiting the electro-optic and the Joule heating effects of Graphene. A cladding Nd:YAG waveguide was fabricated by the ion irradiation. The multi-layer graphene were transferred onto the waveguide surface as the saturable absorber to get the Q-switched pulsed laser oscillation in the waveguide. Composing with appropriate electrodes, graphene based capacitance and heater were formed on the surface of the Nd:YAG waveguide. Through electrical control of graphene, the state of the hybrid waveguide laser was turned on or off. And the laser operation of the hybrid waveguide was electrically tuned between the continuous wave laser and the nanosecond pulsed laser.

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