Highly stable and repeatable femtosecond soliton pulse generation from saturable absorbers based on two-dimensional Cu3-xP nanocrystals

Haoran MU; Zeke LIU; Xiaozhi BAO; Zhichen WAN; Guanyu LIU; Xiangping LI; Huaiyu SHAO; Guichuan XING; Babar SHABBIR; Lei LI; Tian SUN; Shaojuan LI; Wanli MA; Qiaoliang BAO

doi:10.1007/s12200-020-1018-y

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