American Institute of Physics, Applied Physics Letters, 7(98), p. 073106
DOI: 10.1063/1.3552684
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We demonstrate a wideband-tunable Q-switched fiber laser exploiting a graphene saturable absorber. We get ~2us pulses, tunable between 1522 and 1555nm with up to~40nJ energy. This is a simple and low-cost light source for metrology, environmental sensing and biomedical diagnostics.