Nonlinear optical properties of WSe2 and MoSe2 films and their applications in passively Q-switched erbium doped fiber lasers

Wenjun Liu; Mengli Liu; Hainian Han; Shaobo Fang; Hao Teng; Ming Lei; Zhiyi Wei

doi:10.1364/PRJ.6.000C15

Photonics Research, Volume. 6, Issue 10, C15(2018)

Nonlinear optical properties of WSe₂ and MoSe₂ films and their applications in passively Q-switched erbium doped fiber lasers

Wenjun Liu^1,2,3, Mengli Liu¹, Hainian Han¹, Shaobo Fang², Hao Teng², Ming Lei^1,4, and Zhiyi Wei^2、*

Author Affiliations

¹State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, School of Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China

²Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

³e-mail: jungliu@bupt.edu.cn

⁴e-mail: mlei@bupt.edu.cn

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Special Issue: TWO DIMENSIONAL LAYERED MATERIALS FOR ULTRAFAST LASERS (INVITATION ONLY)

Received: May. 8, 2018

Accepted: Jul. 8, 2018

Published Online: Aug. 21, 2018

The Author Email: Zhiyi Wei (zywei@iphy.ac.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.6.000C15

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