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    Femtosecond pulse generation from a Ti3+: Sapphire laser near 800 nm with voltage reconfigurable graphene saturable absorbers
    (OSA - The Optical Society, 2017) Baylam, Işınsu; Özharar, Sarper; Kakenov, Nurbek; Kocabaş, Coşkun; Sennaroglu, Alphan
    We experimentally show that a voltage-controlled graphene-gold supercapacitor saturable absorber (VCG-gold-SA) can be operated as a fast saturable absorber with adjustable linear absorption at wavelengths as low as 795 nm. This was made possible by the use of a novel supercapacitor architecture, consisting of a high-dielectric electrolyte sandwiched between a graphene and a gold electrode. The high-dielectric electrolyte allowed continuous, reversible adjustment of the Fermi level and, hence, the optical loss of the VCG-gold-SA up to the visible wavelengths at low bias voltages of the order of a few volts (0-2 V). The fast saturable absorber action of the VCG-gold-SA and the bias-dependent reduction of its loss were successfully demonstrated inside a femtosecond Ti3+:sapphire laser operating near 800 nm. Dispersion compensation was employed by using dispersion control mirrors and a prism pair. At a bias voltage of 1.2 V, the laser operated with improved power performance in comparison with that at zero bias, and the VCG-gold-SA initiated the generation of nearly transform-limited pulses as short as 48 fs at a pulse repetition rate of 131.7 MHz near 830 nm. To the best of our knowledge, this represents the shortest wavelength where a VCG-gold-SA has been employed as a mode locker with adjustable loss. © 2017 Optical Society of America.
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    Femtosecond pulse generation from an extended cavity Cr4+: Forsterite laser using graphene on YAG
    (Optical Society of America, 2013) Baylam I.; Ozharar, S.; Natali Cizmeciyan, M.; Balcı, Osman; Pince, Erçağ; Kocabaş, Coşkun; Sennaroglu, A.
    A room temperature, multipass-cavity, femtosecond Cr4+:forsterite laser was modelocked with a single-layer graphene saturable absorber on a YAG substrate. The resonator produced nearly transform-limited 92 fs pulses near 1250 nm with 53 kW of peak power. © OSA 2013.
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    Generation of Sub-20-fs Pulses From a Graphene Mode-Locked Laser
    (OSA - The Optical Society, 2017) Canbaz, F.; Kakenov, N.; Kocabas, C.; Demirbas, U.; Sennaroglu, A.
    We demonstrate, what is to our knowledge, the shortest pulses directly generated to date from a solid-state laser, mode locked with a graphene saturable absorber (GSA). In the experiments, a low-threshold diode-pumped Cr3+:LiSAF laser was used near 850 nm. At a pump power of 275 mW provided by two pump diodes, the Cr3+:LiSAF laser produced nearly transform-limited, 19-fs pulses with an average output power of 8.5 mW. The repetition rate was around 107 MHz, corresponding to a pulse energy and peak power of 79 pJ and 4.2 kW, respectively. Once mode locking was initiated with the GSA, stable, uninterrupted femtosecond pulse generation could be obtained. In addition, the femtosecond output of the laser could be tuned from 836 nm to 897 nm with pulse durations in the range of 80-190 fs. We further performed detailed mode locking initiation tests across the full cavity stability range of the laser to verify that pulse generation was indeed started by the GSA and not by Kerr lens mode locking. � 2017 Optical Society of America.
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    Graphene mode-locked Cr:LiSAF laser at 850 nm
    (OSA - The Optical Society, 2015) Canbaz F.; Kakenov, N.; Kocabas, C.; Demirbas, U.; Sennaroglu, A.
    We report, for the first time to our knowledge, a mode-locked femtosecond Cr:LiSAF laser initiated with a high-quality monolayer graphene saturable absorber (GSA), synthesized by chemical-vapor deposition. The tight-focusing resonator architecture made it possible to operate the Cr:LiSAF laser with only two 135 mW, 660 nm low-cost single-mode diode lasers. At a pump power of 270 mW, the laser produced nearly transform-limited 68 fs pulses with an average power of 11.5 mW at 850 nm. The repetition rate was around 132 MHz, corresponding to a pulse energy and peak power of 86 pJ and 1.26 kW, respectively. Once mode locking was initiated with the GSA, stable, uninterrupted femtosecond pulse generation could be sustained for hours. The saturation fluence and the modulation depth of the GSA were further determined to be 28 μJ/cm2 and 0.62%, respectively. 2015 Optical Society of America.
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    Graphene mode-locked femtosecond Cr: LiSAF laser
    (Optical Society of America (OSA), 2015) Canbaz F.; Kakenov, N.; Kocabas, C.; Demirbas, U.; Sennaroglu, A.
    We report the first demonstration of femtosecond pulse generation from a Cr:LiSAF laser mode-locked with a monolayer graphene saturable absorber. Nearly transform-limited 72-fs pulses were generated at 850 nm with only two 135-mW pump diodes.
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    Ultrafast spectroscopy of voltage reconfigurable graphene saturable absorbers in the visible and near infrared
    (IOP, 2019-04-23) Baylam, I.; Kakenov, Nurbek; Kocabaş, Coşkun; Sennaroğlu, A.; Çizmeciyan, M. N.
    We describe a detailed experimental investigation of the ultrafast nonlinear response of a voltagecontrolled graphene-gold saturable absorber (VCG-gold-SA) by employing femtosecond pump probe spectroscopy. Visible and near-infrared continuum probe pulses covering the spectral range from 500nm to 1600nm were used. In the experiments, the saturation fluence, modulation depth, ultrafast relaxation times, and the saturable absorption bandwidth of the VCG-gold-SA were measured as a function of the applied bias. We observed both saturable absorption and multi-photon absorption regimes as the applied bias voltage was varied between 0 and 2 V. Measurements indicate that under bias voltages in the range of 0–2 V, it should be possible to adjust the insertion loss of the VCG-gold-SA and at the same time, maintain a sufficient amount of modulation depth as well as an attainable level of saturation fluence over an ultrabroad spectral bandwidth. In particular, at the bias voltage of 1 V, the VCG-gold-SA exhibited fast saturable absorber behavior with adjustable insertion loss from 630nm to 1100nm. These results clearly demonstrate that the VCG-gold-SA can operate as a versatile mode locker for femtosecond pulse generation from lasers operating in the visible and near-infrared wavelengths.