Less is more: surface-lattice-resonance-enhanced aluminum metasurface with giant saturable absorption for a wavelength-tunable <i>Q</i>-switched Yb-doped fiber laser

Hailun Xie; Lili Gui; Xiangxiang Zhou; Yue Zhou; Kun Xu

doi:10.1364/PRJ.528105

Photonics Research, Volume. 12, Issue 10, 2198(2024)

Less is more: surface-lattice-resonance-enhanced aluminum metasurface with giant saturable absorption for a wavelength-tunable Q-switched Yb-doped fiber laser

Hailun Xie, Lili Gui^*, Xiangxiang Zhou, Yue Zhou, and Kun Xu

Author Affiliations

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

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Paper Information

Category: Ultrafast Optics

Received: Apr. 23, 2024

Accepted: Jul. 14, 2024

Published Online: Sep. 20, 2024

The Author Email: Lili Gui (liligui@bupt.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.528105

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