Revealing of the ultrafast third-order nonlinear optical response and enabled photonic application in two-dimensional tin sulfide

Zhongjian Xie; Feng Zhang; Zhiming Liang; Taojian Fan; Zhongjun Li; Xiantao Jiang; Hong Chen; Jianqing Li; Han Zhang

doi:10.1364/PRJ.7.000494

Photonics Research, Volume. 7, Issue 5, 494(2019)

Revealing of the ultrafast third-order nonlinear optical response and enabled photonic application in two-dimensional tin sulfide

Zhongjian Xie^1、†, Feng Zhang^1、†, Zhiming Liang^1、†, Taojian Fan¹, Zhongjun Li², Xiantao Jiang^1,3,5, Hong Chen^4,6, Jianqing Li², and Han Zhang^1、*

Author Affiliations

¹Shenzhen Engineering Laboratory of Phosphorene and Optoelectronics, Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Devices and Systems of Ministry of Education and Guangdong Province, College of Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China

²Faculty of Information Technology, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macao, China

³College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China

⁴School of Materials Science and Energy Engineering, Foshan University, Foshan 528000, China

⁵e-mail: jiangxtemail@sina.com

⁶e-mail: chenhongcs@126.com

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Category: Optical and Photonic Materials

Received: Dec. 26, 2018

Accepted: Feb. 11, 2019

Published Online: Apr. 12, 2019

The Author Email: Han Zhang (hzhang@szu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.7.000494

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