@article{Zhang2015, 
author = {Meng Zhang and Richard C. T. Howe and Robert I. Woodward and Edmund J. R. Kelleher and Felice Torrisi and Guohua Hu and Sergei V. Popov and J. Roy Taylor and Tawfique Hasan},
title = {Solution processed MoS2-PVA composite for sub-bandgap mode-locking of a wideband tunable ultrafast Er: fiber laser},
year = {2015},
journal = {Nano Research},
volume = {8},
number = {5},
pages = {1522-1534},
keywords = {molybdenum disulfide, two-dimensional materials, liquid phase exfoliation, polymer composites, saturable absorbers, ultrafast lasers},
url = {https://www.sciopen.com/article/10.1007/s12274-014-0637-2},
doi = {10.1007/s12274-014-0637-2},
abstract = {We fabricate a free-standing few-layer molybdenum disulfide (MoS2)-polymer composite by liquid phase exfoliation of chemically pristine MoS2 crystals and use this to demonstrate a wideband tunable, ultrafast mode-locked fiber laser. Stable, picosecond pulses, tunable from 1, 535 nm to 1, 565 nm, are generated, corresponding to photon energies below the MoS2 material bandgap. These results contribute to the growing body of work studying the nonlinear optical properties of transition metal dichalcogenides that present new opportunities for ultrafast photonic applications.}
}