摘要
本文主要介绍了二维可饱和吸收体材料在固体激光器中的应用与研究进展。简要介绍了新型二维材料的性质和优点。以石墨烯、拓扑绝缘体、过渡金属硫化物和黑磷等新型二维材料为例分析了它们在固体激光器中实现调Q或锁模的过程,展示了二维材料在脉冲固体激光研究中的重要应用前景。二维材料与固体激光器的结合,可进一步推进二维材料的研究,有望开发出大量新型固体激光器件并且作为基础光源应用于多个领域,推动相关领域的发展。
The applications and advances of new two-dimensional materials as saturable absorbers in solid-state lasers are introduced in this paper. The characteristics and advantages of two-dimensional materials are briefly summarized. Taking the new two-dimensional materials such as graphene,topological insulator,transition metal dichalcogenides and black phosphorus as examples,the Q-switched and mode-locked processes in solidstate lasers are analyzed,which reveals the promising future of new-type two-dimensional materials for the applications in the research of pulsed solid-state lasers. The combination of solid-state lasers and two-dimensional materials can further improve the research of two-dimensional materials and is expected to develop a large number of new solid-state lasers and used as a base light source in many areas to promote the developments of related fields.
引文
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