Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 20, Issue 2, 021408(2022)

Nanosecond and femtosecond lasers based on black arsenic-phosphorus alloys saturable absorber

Shengjun Huang1, Yiran Wang2, Jingliang He3, Xiancui Su2、*, and Jie Liu1、**
Author Affiliations
  • 1Shandong Provincial Engineering and Technical Center of Light Manipulations & Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optics and Photonic Device, School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, China
  • 2Shandong Key Laboratory of Optical Communication Science and Technology, School of Physics Science and Information Technology, Liaocheng University, Liaocheng 252059, China
  • 3State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, Institute of Novel Semiconductors, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China
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    Category: Lasers, Optical Amplifiers, and Laser Optics

    Received: Oct. 28, 2021

    Accepted: Dec. 2, 2021

    Published Online: Dec. 24, 2021

    The Author Email: Xiancui Su (suxiancui@lcu.edu.cn), Jie Liu (jieliu@sdnu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/COL202220.021408

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