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Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 22, Issue 11, 111901(2024)

Ultrafast nonlinear optical absorption and carrier dynamics of CrPS₄ thin films

Lei Yan¹, Qinyong He¹, Ziyao Gong¹, Yunqi Yang¹, Anping Ge^2,3, Guohong Ma¹, Ye Dai¹, Liaoxin Sun^2,3、*, and Saifeng Zhang^1、**

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¹Department of Physics, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China

²State Key Laboratory of Infrared Physics, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200083, China

³University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

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Category: Nonlinear Optics

Received: Apr. 18, 2024

Accepted: May. 27, 2024

Published Online: Nov. 14, 2024

The Author Email: Liaoxin Sun (sunlx@mail.sitp.ac.cn), Saifeng Zhang (sfzhang@shu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.3788/COL202422.111901

CSTR:32184.14.COL202422.111901

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