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Enhanced broadband nonlinear optical properties of copper-functionalized SnSe nanosheets for laser pulse generation

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Mode-Locked Characteristic of L-Band All-Fiber Laser with Different 2D and Quasi-2D Perovskite Saturable Absorbers

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High-power ultrafast laser based on PbS quantum dots-polystyrene composite films

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Observation of soliton and bound soliton in erbium-doped fiber lasers using single-walled carbon nanotubes mode-lockers under gamma irradiation

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基于PbS量子点的可调谐高能量锁模光纤激光器

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Wavelength-tunable noise-like fiber laser based on PbS quantum dot saturable absorber film

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Passive Q-switched fiber laser with MAX phase molybdenum titanium aluminum carbide film

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Opt Quant Electron, 2024, 56
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Large Energy Q-Switched Fiber Laser With Black Phosphorus Saturable Absorber Fabricated by Sol−Gel Technique

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On the performance of a Q-switched erbium-doped fiber laser based on a cadmium-sulfide (CdS) thin-film saturable absorber

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Opt. Continuum, 2024, 3, 1528
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Heterojunctions Based on 2D Materials for Pulse Laser Applications

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ACS Nano, 2025, 19, 12646
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Passively mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser by a Mo2TiC2 MXene saturable absorber

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Optik, 2023, 295, 171531
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Black phosphorus film as Q-switcher in neodymium-doped fiber laser

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Dual Regime Mode-Locked and Q-Switched Erbium-Doped Fiber Laser by Employing Graphene Filament–Chitin Film-Based Passive Saturable Absorber

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Strong Enhancement of Two-Photon Absorption and Emergence of Unusual Extinction Saturation in Silver Sulfide Quantum Dots Integrated with Gold and Silica Nanostructures

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A three-level carrier dynamics model of TeSe2-based saturable absorption for stable Q-switched Yb-doped fiber lasers

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Utilizing iron phthalocyanines absorber for the generation of Q-switched and mode-locked pulses

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Widely-tunable harmonic mode-locked fiber laser by the combination of spectral filtering and gain management

Song Yang, Jiancheng Zheng, Yaoyao Qi, Yiwen Shi, Diao Li, Xuchen Nie and Zhipei Sun

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Passively Q-switched erbium-doped fiber laser based on two-dimensional boron carbide nanoparticles as saturable absorber

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Dynamics of soliton types transition in pure-quartic soliton laser

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Passively Q-switched Nd:GdVO4 lasers with core–shell ZIF-8@ZIF-67 saturable absorber at 1 and 1.34 µm

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Nanoconfined Synthesis of Lead Sulfide Quantum Dots Embedded in Mesoporous Aluminosilicate Glass with Adjustable Near-Infrared Broadband Luminescence

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Low-Threshold and Long-Term Stable Soliton Fiber Laser Using PbSe/PbS Quantum Dot-Polystyrene Composite Saturable Absorber

Bin Yang, Jingping Shao, Chunxiao Liu, Ling Yun and Zuxing Zhang

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Low Threshold and High Power Fiber Laser Passively Mode-Locked Based on PbSe Quantum Dots

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IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., 2024, 36, 247
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Generation and evolution of stable noise-like pulse with varying dispersion in figure-of-eight erbium-doped fiber laser

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Optical properties and applications of metal nanomaterials in ultrafast photonics: a review

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Highly nonlinear optic nucleic acid thin-solid film to generate short pulse laser

Marjan Ghasemi, Pulak Chandra Debnath, Byungjoo Kim, Marzieh Pournoury, Reza Khazaeinezhad, Sahar Hosseinzadeh Kassani, Dong-Il Yeom and Kyunghwan Oh

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Collapse of pure-quartic solitons in a mode-locked fiber laser

Song Yang, Zhiwei Zhu, Chaojian He, Yiwen Shi, Yingying Yang and Xuechun Lin

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Impact of Intracavity Power Variations toward Ultrashort Pulse Generation

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Applied Sciences, 2023, 13, 4087
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Study on pulse characteristics of high-repetition-rate harmonic mode-locked laser utilizing PbSnS2 saturable absorber

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Vector pure-quartic soliton molecule fiber laser

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Cavity-birefringence-dependent vector pure-quartic soliton fiber laser

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Q-switched pulse operation in erbium-doped fiber laser subject to CdS nanoparticles-based saturable absorber deposit directly on the fiber ferrule

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Optical Materials, 2022, 134, 113109
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Revealing the Evolution from Q-Switching to Mode-Locking in an Erbium-Doped Fiber Laser Using Tungsten Trioxide Saturable Absorber

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Photonics, 2022, 9, 962
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Development of a Mode-Locked Fiber Laser Utilizing a Niobium Diselenide Saturable Absorber

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