Highly stable femtosecond pulse generation from a MXene Ti3C2Tx (T = F, O, or OH) mode-locked fiber laser

Jie Li; Zilong Zhang; Lin Du; Lili Miao; Jun Yi; Bin Huang; Yanhong Zou; Chujun Zhao; Shuangchun Wen

doi:10.1364/PRJ.7.000260

Photonics Research, Volume. 7, Issue 3, 260(2019)

Highly stable femtosecond pulse generation from a MXene Ti₃C₂T_x (T = F, O, or OH) mode-locked fiber laser

Jie Li¹, Zilong Zhang¹, Lin Du¹, Lili Miao¹, Jun Yi¹, Bin Huang¹, Yanhong Zou^1,2、*, Chujun Zhao^1,3、*, and Shuangchun Wen¹

Author Affiliations

¹Key Laboratory for Micro/Nano Optoelectronic Devices of Ministry of Education & Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Structural Physics and Devices, School of Physics and Electronics, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China

²e-mail: yanhongzou@hnu.edu.cn

³e-mail: cjzhao@hnu.edu.cn

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Paper Information

Category: Lasers and Laser Optics

Received: Oct. 31, 2018

Accepted: Dec. 23, 2018

Published Online: Feb. 20, 2019

The Author Email: Yanhong Zou (yanhongzou@hnu.edu.cn), Chujun Zhao (cjzhao@hnu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.7.000260

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