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Photonics Research, Volume. 4, Issue 2, 0041(2016)

Fabrication and application of a graphene polarizer with strong saturable absorption

Weixiong Li1, Lilin Yi1、*, Ran Zheng1, Zhenghua Ni2, and Weisheng Hu1
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  • 1The State Key Lab of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Shanghai Jiao Tong University,Shanghai 200240, China
  • 2Department of Physics, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
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    Weixiong Li, Lilin Yi, Ran Zheng, Zhenghua Ni, Weisheng Hu. Fabrication and application of a graphene polarizer with strong saturable absorption[J]. Photonics Research, 2016, 4(2): 0041

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    Paper Information

    Received: Oct. 20, 2015

    Accepted: Dec. 8, 2015

    Published Online: Sep. 28, 2016

    The Author Email: Lilin Yi (lilinyi@sjtu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1364/prj.4.000041

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