Owing to their extraordinary physical and chemical properties, two-dimensional (2D)
materials have aroused extensive attention and have been widely used in photonic and …

We report on the generation of passive harmonic mode locking of a fiber laser using a
microfiber-based topological insulator (TI) Bi_2Te_3 saturable absorber (SA). The optical …

Compared with continuous wave lasers, ultrafast lasers have the advantages of ultra-short
pulse width and ultra-high peak power, and have significant applications in optical …

MXene as a novel two-dimensional (2D) material exhibits a lot of advantages in nonlinear
optics. However, the common MXene, Ti3C2Tx and Ti2CTx nanosheets, easily suffer from …

Abstract Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have recently
gathered substantial interest in the advanced photonic field due to their strong broadband …

We experimentally demonstrate the use of a bulk-like, MoSe_2-based saturable absorber
(SA) as a passive harmonic mode-locker for the production of femtosecond pulses from a …

Two-dimensional materials have become the focus of research for their photoelectric
properties, and are employed as saturable absorption materials. Currently, the challenge is …

The use of fundamental modelocking to generate short terahertz (THz) pulses and THz
frequency combs from semiconductor lasers has become a routine affair, using quantum …

In this paper, tin diselenide (SnSe 2) was successfully prepared with liquid phase exfoliation
method and embedded into polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) as a saturable absorber (SA) for …

As a member of the transition metal nitride material family, titanium nitride (TiN) quantum
dots (QDs) have attracted great attention in optical and electronic fields because of their …