Fe3O4 nanoparticles as a saturable absorber for a tunable Q-switched dysprosium laser around 3 μm

Jian Yang; Jiyi Hu; Hongyu Luo; Jianfeng Li; Jishu Liu; Xiaohui Li; Yong Liu

doi:10.1364/PRJ.8.000070

Photonics Research, Volume. 8, Issue 1, 70(2020)

Fe₃O₄ nanoparticles as a saturable absorber for a tunable Q-switched dysprosium laser around 3 μm

Jian Yang¹, Jiyi Hu², Hongyu Luo¹, Jianfeng Li^1、*, Jishu Liu², Xiaohui Li^2,3, and Yong Liu¹

¹State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Films and Integrated Devices, School of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu 610054, China

²School of Physics and Information Technology, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an 710119, China

³e-mail: lixiaohui0523@163.com

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Category: Lasers and Laser Optics

Received: Sep. 30, 2019

Accepted: Nov. 18, 2019

Published Online: Dec. 23, 2019

The Author Email: Jianfeng Li (lijianfeng@uestc.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.8.000070

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