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Photonics Research
Vol. 6, Issue 7, 750 (2018)

Vertically standing PtSe₂ film: a saturable absorber for a passively mode-locked Nd:LuVO₄ laser

Lili Tao^1,†, Xiaowen Huang^2,†, Junshan He¹, Yajun Lou¹..., Longhui Zeng², Yonghui Li¹, Hui Long², Jingbo Li¹, Ling Zhang^3,4,* and Yuen Hong Tsang^2,5,*|Show fewer author(s)

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¹School of Materials and Energy, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China

²Department of Applied Physics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

³Laboratory of All-Solid-State Light Sources, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, China

⁴e-mail: zhangling@semi.ac.cn

⁵e-mail: yuen.tsang@polyu.edu.hk

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Lili Tao, Xiaowen Huang, Junshan He, Yajun Lou, Longhui Zeng, Yonghui Li, Hui Long, Jingbo Li, Ling Zhang, Yuen Hong Tsang, "Vertically standing PtSe₂ film: a saturable absorber for a passively mode-locked Nd:LuVO₄ laser," Photonics Res. 6, 750 (2018) Copy Citation Text

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Lili Tao, Xiaowen Huang, Junshan He, Yajun Lou, Longhui Zeng, Yonghui Li, Hui Long, Jingbo Li, Ling Zhang, Yuen Hong Tsang, "Vertically standing PtSe₂ film: a saturable absorber for a passively mode-locked Nd:LuVO₄ laser," Photonics Res. 6, 750 (2018)

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