Nonlinear optical absorption properties of InP nanowires and applications as a saturable absorber

Junting Liu; Hongkun Nie; Bingzheng Yan; Kejian Yang; He Yang; Vladislav Khayrudinov; Harri Lipsanen; Baitao Zhang; Jingliang He

doi:10.1364/PRJ.389669

Photonics Research, Volume. 8, Issue 6, 1035(2020)

Nonlinear optical absorption properties of InP nanowires and applications as a saturable absorber

Junting Liu¹, Hongkun Nie¹, Bingzheng Yan¹, Kejian Yang^1,2, He Yang^3,4, Vladislav Khayrudinov³, Harri Lipsanen³, Baitao Zhang^1,2、*, and Jingliang He^1,2

Author Affiliations

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

²Key Laboratory of Laser & Infrared System, Ministry of Education, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China

³Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, Aalto University, Espoo FI-00076, Finland

⁴e-mail: yhyanghe@gmail.com

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Paper Information

Category: Optical and Photonic Materials

Received: Feb. 6, 2020

Accepted: Mar. 31, 2020

Published Online: Jun. 1, 2020

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

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.389669

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