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Chinese Optics Letters
Vol. 19, Issue 3, 031401 (2021)

Two-dimensional tellurium saturable absorber for ultrafast solid-state laser

Zixin Yang^1、4, Lili Han¹, Qi Yang^1、3、*, Xianghe Ren^1、**, Syed Zaheer Ud Din¹, Xiaoyan Zhang^2、***, Jiancai Leng⁴, Jiabao Zhang^1、4, Baitao Zhang³, Kejian Yang³, Jingliang He³, Chunlong Li⁵, and Jun Wang⁶

Author Affiliations

¹International School for Optoelectronic Engineering, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Jinan 250300, China

²Department of Chemistry, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China

³State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China

⁴School of Electronic and Information Engineering (Department of Physics), Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Jinan 250300, China

⁵State Key Laboratory of Biobased Material and Green Papermaking, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Jinan 250300, China

⁶Key Laboratory of Materials for High-Power Laser, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China

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Zixin Yang, Lili Han, Qi Yang, Xianghe Ren, Syed Zaheer Ud Din, Xiaoyan Zhang, Jiancai Leng, Jiabao Zhang, Baitao Zhang, Kejian Yang, Jingliang He, Chunlong Li, Jun Wang. Two-dimensional tellurium saturable absorber for ultrafast solid-state laser[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2021, 19(3): 031401 Copy Citation Text

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Zixin Yang, Lili Han, Qi Yang, Xianghe Ren, Syed Zaheer Ud Din, Xiaoyan Zhang, Jiancai Leng, Jiabao Zhang, Baitao Zhang, Kejian Yang, Jingliang He, Chunlong Li, Jun Wang. Two-dimensional tellurium saturable absorber for ultrafast solid-state laser[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2021, 19(3): 031401

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