Broadband nonlinear optical resonance and all-optical switching of liquid phase exfoliated tungsten diselenide

Yue Jia; Youxian Shan; Leiming Wu; Xiaoyu Dai; Dianyuan Fan; Yuanjiang Xiang

doi:10.1364/PRJ.6.001040

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