Flexible, robust and highly efficient broadband nonlinear optical materials based on graphene oxide impregnated polymer sheets

Xiao-Fang Jiang; Lakshminarayana Polavarapu; Hai Zhu; Rizhao Ma; Qing-Hua Xu

doi:10.1364/PRJ.3.000A87

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