Table 1 The characteristic parameters of saturable absorbance of the graphene and C-rich SixC1−x.

From: Can silicon carbide serve as a saturable absorber for passive mode-locked fiber lasers?

Material

T

Psat

αlin

αnon

MD

γ

Graphene

91%

0.8

0.085

0.05

0.26

7.6 × 10−4

C-rich SixC1−x

81%

3.81

0.172

0.045

0.14

3.9 × 10−4