Visible lasers are sought for in a variety of applications. They are required in fields as
diverse as medicine, materials processing, display and entertainment technology and many …

Owing to their extraordinary surface plasmon and semiconductor properties, copper
chalcogenide nanocrystals (NCs) have experienced a steeply increased interest for various …

Nanomaterials have demonstrated excellent mechanical, thermal, optical, and electrical
properties in various fields, including 1D carbon nanotubes, as well as 2D materials starting …

Visible light has an important and unique value in research and practical applications,
because of its perceptible characteristics by the human eye. Directly pumped bulk visible …

We report on aluminum oxide nanoparticles (Al 2 O 3 NPs) as a saturable absorber (SA) for
passively Q-switched erbium-doped fiber laser (EDFL) operating at a wavelength of 1560.6 …

Due to their exceptional optical properties, nanomaterials have garnered significant interest
and found several domains in the fields of ultrafast photonics, optoelectronics, sensors, and …

Plasmonic Au nanoparticles embedded in LiNbO3 crystals as efficient saturable absorbers
to realize 74.1 ps mode‐locked laser pulse generation at 1 µm are reported. The system is …

We report on the synthesis of embedded gold (Au) nanoparticles (NPs) in Nd: YAG single
crystals using ion implantation and subsequent thermal annealing. Both linear and …

Nanomaterials with outstanding optical properties are widely used in ultrafast photonics.
Especially, metal nanomaterials have attracted increasing attention in recent years owing to …

Two-dimensional (2D) materials, such as graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides
(TMDs), topological insulators and black phosphorus, have been widely used in the …