Hybrid Mode-Locked Fiber Ring Laser Using Graphene Saturable Absorbers to Generate 20 and 50-GHz Pulse Trains

Optical pulses at high repetition rates are generated using rational harmonic mode locking and saturable absorber made of graphene nanoparticles in a fiber laser. The pulse generation from the fiber laser is modeled by solving the Generalized Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation. The computation involved varying the various saturable absorption parameters, such as linear and nonlinear absorption coefficients. Experimentally stable pulse trains at 20 GHz and 50 GHz are generated with a pulse width of ∼ 2.7 ps. This result agrees with the simulation.