Soliton fiber laser mode locked with two types of film-based Bi2Te3 saturable absorbers

Dong Mao; Biqiang Jiang; Xuetao Gan; Chaojie Ma; Yu Chen; Chujun Zhao; Han Zhang; Jianbang Zheng; Jianlin Zhao

doi:10.1364/prj.3.000a43

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