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    Journals >Photonics Research >Volume 6 >Issue 10 >Page C15 > Article
    • Photonics Research
    • Vol. 6, Issue 10, C15 (2018)
    Nonlinear optical properties of WSe2 and MoSe2 films and their applications in passively Q-switched erbium doped fiber lasers
    Wenjun Liu1、2、3, Mengli Liu1, Hainian Han1, Shaobo Fang2, Hao Teng2, Ming Lei1、4, and Zhiyi Wei2、*
    Author Affiliations
  • 1State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, School of Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China
  • 2Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
  • 3e-mail: jungliu@bupt.edu.cn
  • 4e-mail: mlei@bupt.edu.cn
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.6.000C15 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Wenjun Liu, Mengli Liu, Hainian Han, Shaobo Fang, Hao Teng, Ming Lei, Zhiyi Wei. Nonlinear optical properties of WSe2 and MoSe2 films and their applications in passively Q-switched erbium doped fiber lasers[J]. Photonics Research, 2018, 6(10): C15 Copy Citation Text show less
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