Preparation and Saturable Absorption Property of Graphene on the Optic Fiber Side by Transferring CVD-Graphene Grown on Ni

A key enabler in the mode-locked fiber lasers has been the discovery of novel saturable absorbers (SA) such as carbon nanotubes (CNT) and graphene. We demonstrate chemical vapor deposition (CVD)-graphene on nickel (Ni) transferred onto optical fibers preserves its nonlinearity. The influence of the...

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Published inIOP conference series. Materials Science and Engineering Vol. 230; no. 1; pp. 12029 - 12034
Main Authors Ding, Liyun, Xu, Bing, Xu, Chuang, Huang, Jun, Guo, Donglai
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Bristol IOP Publishing 01.09.2017
Subjects
Absorption
Atomic force microscopes
Atomic force microscopy
Carbon nanotubes
Chemical vapor deposition
Electron microscopes
Fiber lasers
Graphene
Laser mode locking
Nickel
Optical fibers
Raman spectra
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Summary:A key enabler in the mode-locked fiber lasers has been the discovery of novel saturable absorbers (SA) such as carbon nanotubes (CNT) and graphene. We demonstrate chemical vapor deposition (CVD)-graphene on nickel (Ni) transferred onto optical fibers preserves its nonlinearity. The influence of the temperature on the growth of graphene was explored by Raman spectra, scanning electron microscope (SEM) and atomic force microscope (AFM), respectively. The results show the temperature will affect the thickness and surface uniformity of graphene on Ni film. Besides, the mechanism of CVD process and the saturable absorption property of the graphene are illustrated, respectively.
ISSN:1757-8981
1757-899X
DOI:10.1088/1757-899X/230/1/012029