Passively mode-locked Er-doped fiber laser based on SnS<sub>2</sub> nanosheets as a saturable absorber

Kangdi Niu; Ruyi Sun; Qingyun Chen; Baoyuan Man; Huanian Zhang

doi:10.1364/PRJ.6.000072

Photonics Research, Volume. 6, Issue 2, 72(2018)

Passively mode-locked Er-doped fiber laser based on SnS₂ nanosheets as a saturable absorber

Kangdi Niu¹, Ruyi Sun¹, Qingyun Chen¹, Baoyuan Man¹, and Huanian Zhang^1,2、*

¹Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optics and Photonic Devices, School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China

²Institute of Data Science and Technology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250014, China

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Category: Lasers and Laser Optics

Received: Aug. 21, 2017

Accepted: Dec. 5, 2017

Published Online: Jul. 10, 2018

The Author Email: Huanian Zhang (huanian_zhang@163.com)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.6.000072

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