Less is more: surface-lattice-resonance-enhanced aluminum metasurface with giant saturable absorption for a wavelength-tunable Q-switched Yb-doped fiber laser

Hailun Xie; Lili Gui; Xiangxiang Zhou; Yue Zhou; Kun Xu

doi:10.1364/PRJ.528105

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