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Photonics Research
Vol. 6, Issue 4, 307 (2018)

Graphitic carbon nitride, a saturable absorber material for the visible waveband

Mengxia Wang^1、†, Fukun Ma^1、†, Zhengping Wang^1、*, Dawei Hu², Xinguang Xu¹, and Xiaopeng Hao^1、3

Author Affiliations

¹State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China

²Research Institute of Science and Technology, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China

³e-mail: xphao@sdu.edu.cn

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