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Photonics Research, Volume. 6, Issue 6, 498(2018)

Broadband rhenium disulfide optical modulator for solid-state lasers

Xiancui Su¹, Baitao Zhang^1、*, Yiran Wang¹, Guanbai He¹, Guoru Li¹, Na Lin¹, Kejian Yang¹, Jingliang He^1,3, and Shande Liu²

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¹State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China

²College of Electronics, Communication, and Physics, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, China

³e-mail: jlhe@sdu.edu.cn

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Xiancui Su, Baitao Zhang, Yiran Wang, Guanbai He, Guoru Li, Na Lin, Kejian Yang, Jingliang He, Shande Liu. Broadband rhenium disulfide optical modulator for solid-state lasers[J]. Photonics Research, 2018, 6(6): 498

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Category: Integrated Optics

Received: Feb. 19, 2018

Accepted: Mar. 7, 2018

Published Online: Jul. 2, 2018

The Author Email: Baitao Zhang (btzhang@sdu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.6.000498

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