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Photonics Research, Volume. 6, Issue 8, 762(2018)

Bismuth nanosheets as a Q-switcher for a mid-infrared erbium-doped SrF2 laser

Jingjing Liu1, Hao Huang2, Feng Zhang2, Zhen Zhang3, Jie Liu1,4、*, Han Zhang2,6, and Liangbi Su3,5,7
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  • 1Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optics and Photonic Devices, School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China
  • 2SZU-NUS Collaborative Innovation Centre for Optoelectronic Science & Technology, and Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Devices and Systems of the Ministry of Education and Guangdong Province, College of Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
  • 3CAS Key Laboratory of Transparent and Opto-Functional Inorganic Materials, Synthetic Single Crystal Research Center, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201899, China
  • 4Institute of Data Science and Technology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China
  • 5State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Shanghai 201899, China
  • 6e-mail: hzhang@szu.edu.cn
  • 7e-mail: suliangbi@mail.sic.ac.cn
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    Jingjing Liu, Hao Huang, Feng Zhang, Zhen Zhang, Jie Liu, Han Zhang, Liangbi Su. Bismuth nanosheets as a Q-switcher for a mid-infrared erbium-doped SrF2 laser[J]. Photonics Research, 2018, 6(8): 762

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    Category: Lasers and Laser Optics

    Received: Apr. 6, 2018

    Accepted: May. 26, 2018

    Published Online: Aug. 1, 2018

    The Author Email: Jie Liu (jieliu@sdnu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1364/PRJ.6.000762

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