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Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 19, Issue 3, 031401(2021)

Two-dimensional tellurium saturable absorber for ultrafast solid-state laser

Zixin Yang1,4, Lili Han1, Qi Yang1,3、*, Xianghe Ren1、**, Syed Zaheer Ud Din1, Xiaoyan Zhang2、***, Jiancai Leng4, Jiabao Zhang1,4, Baitao Zhang3, Kejian Yang3, Jingliang He3, Chunlong Li5, and Jun Wang6
Author Affiliations
  • 1International School for Optoelectronic Engineering, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Jinan 250300, China
  • 2Department of Chemistry, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
  • 3State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China
  • 4School of Electronic and Information Engineering (Department of Physics), Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Jinan 250300, China
  • 5State Key Laboratory of Biobased Material and Green Papermaking, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Jinan 250300, China
  • 6Key Laboratory of Materials for High-Power Laser, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
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    Zixin Yang, Lili Han, Qi Yang, Xianghe Ren, Syed Zaheer Ud Din, Xiaoyan Zhang, Jiancai Leng, Jiabao Zhang, Baitao Zhang, Kejian Yang, Jingliang He, Chunlong Li, Jun Wang, "Two-dimensional tellurium saturable absorber for ultrafast solid-state laser," Chin. Opt. Lett. 19, 031401 (2021)

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    Category: Lasers, Optical Amplifiers, and Laser Optics

    Received: Dec. 27, 2020

    Accepted: Jan. 12, 2021

    Posted: Jan. 13, 2021

    Published Online: Feb. 25, 2021

    The Author Email: Qi Yang (shanshiyangqi@126.com), Xianghe Ren (xhren101@hotmail.com), Xiaoyan Zhang (xyzhang_dd@shu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/COL202119.031401

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