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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 Li1、*, Jishu Liu2, Xiaohui Li2,3, and Yong Liu1
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  • 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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