Broadband ultrafast nonlinear optical response of few-layers graphene: toward the mid-infrared regime

Lili Miao; Yaqin Jiang; Shunbin Lu; Bingxin Shi; Chujun Zhao; Han Zhang; Shuangchun Wen

doi:10.1364/prj.3.000214

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