Black phosphorus polycarbonate polymer composite for pulsed fibre lasers

Applied Materials Today

Volumn 4, Issue , 2016, Pages 17-23

  Li, Diao ^a,b   Del Rio Castillo, Antonio Esau ^c   Jussila, Henri ^a   Ye, Guojun ^d,e   Ren, Zhaoyu ^b   Bai, Jintao ^b   Chen, Xianhui ^d,e,f   Lipsanen, Harri ^a   Sun, Zhipei ^a   Bonaccorso, Francesco ^c  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

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

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

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

Author keywords

Few layer black phosphorus; Fibre laser; Liquid phase exfoliation; Passive Q switching; Polycarbonate black phosphorus composite; Saturable absorber

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; POLYCARBONATES; Q SWITCHED LASERS; Q SWITCHING; SATURABLE ABSORBERS;

ENVIRONMENTAL STABILITY; INTRINSIC INSTABILITY; LIQUID PHASE; NONLINEAR ABSORPTION PROPERTIES; PASSIVE Q-SWITCHING; PHOTONIC APPLICATION; POLYCARBONATE POLYMER; TELECOMMUNICATION WAVELENGTHS;

PULSED LASERS;

EID: 84971333797     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23529407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmt.2016.05.001     Document Type: Article

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