Open AccessFiber all-optical light control with low-dimensional materials (LDMs): thermo-optic effect and saturable absorption
Author(s) -
Zhiyong Shao,
Cong Wang,
Kan Wu,
Han Zhang,
Jianping Chen
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
nanoscale advances
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.106
H-Index - 21
ISSN - 2516-0230
DOI - 10.1039/c9na00381a
Subject(s) - optical fiber , materials science , saturable absorption , absorption (acoustics) , optics , optoelectronics , fiber laser , physics , composite material
In this paper, we review the recent studies on all-optical light control based on two main nonlinear mechanisms in LDMs: the thermo-optic effect and saturable absorption.