The explosive success of graphene opens a new era of ultrathin 2D materials. It has been
realized that the van der Waals layered materials with atomic and less atomic thickness can …

Ultrafast femtosecond mode-locked fiber laser plays an indispensable role in medical
imaging, space ranging, ophthalmology, terahertz spectroscopy, material micromachining …

Two-dimensional (2D) materials are crystals with one to a few layers of atoms and are being
used in many fields such as optical modulator, photodetector, optical switch, and ultrafast …

In this work, we investigate VSe2 for generating femtosecond and large energy mode-locked
laser pulses for the first time. Two types of VSe2 based saturable absorbers (SAs), microfiber …

Ultrashort pulsed laser is an indispensable tool for the evolution of photonic technology in
the present and future. This laser has been progressing tremendously with new pulse …

In this paper, the zirconia (ZrO 2) nanoparticles-based saturable-absorber (SA) have been
incorporated in an erbium-doped fiber laser (EDFL) cavity for achieving a Q-switched pulse …

Abstract The two-dimensional (2D) material PbSnS 2, a type of transition metal
dichalcogenides (TMD), is a highly anisotropic layered compound with potential applications …

Since graphene was first reported as a saturable absorber to achieve ultrafast pulses in fiber
lasers, many other two-dimensional (2D) materials, such as topological insulators, transition …

We experimentally demonstrate a passive mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser (EDFL)
using a multi-layer black phosphorus saturable absorber (BPSA). The BPSA is fabricated by …

Ultrafast photonics has become an interdisciplinary topic of great consequence due to the
spectacular progress of compact and efficient ultrafast pulse generation. Wide spectrum …