Polarization and thickness dependent absorption properties of black phosphorus: New saturable absorber for ultrafast pulse generation

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Li, Diao ^a,b   Jussila, Henri ^a   Karvonen, Lasse ^a   Ye, Guojun ^c,d   Lipsanen, Harri ^a   Chen, Xianhui ^c,d,e   Sun, Zhipei ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^e Center for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology of Microstructures   (China)

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EID: 84946151986     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep15899     Document Type: Article

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