In recent years, 2D layered materials, including graphene, topological insulators, transition
metal dichalcogenides, black phosphorus, MXenes, graphitic carbon nitride, and metal …

Solitons are stable localized wave packets that can propagate long distance in dispersive
media without changing their shapes. As particle-like nonlinear localized waves, solitons …

Abstract Niobium telluride (NbTe2), an emerging transition metal dichalcogenide material,
has been theoretically predicted to have nonlinear absorption properties and excellent …

Ultrafast fiber lasers have significant applications in laser communications, ultra-precision
manufacturing, biomedical diagnostics, and so on. Among all the types of ultrashort pulses …

We report on the optical saturable absorption of few-layer black phosphorus nanoflakes and
demonstrate its application for the generation of vector solitons in an erbium-doped fiber …

Rogue waves (RWs) are rare, extreme amplitude, localized wave packets, which have
received much interest recently in different areas of physics. Fiber lasers with their abundant …

The mid-infrared fiber lasers in the 2–3.5 μm spectral regions have been extensively applied
in many application fields, such as biomedicine, telecommunications, military and nonlinear …

We study experimentally and theoretically the interactions among ultrashort optical pulses in
the soliton rain multiple-pulse dynamics of a fiber laser. The laser is mode locked by a …

Ultrafast lasers play an important role in a variety of applications ranging from optical
communications to medical diagnostics and industrial materials processing. Graphene and …

Transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) and black phosphorus (BP) are typical 2D
materials with layer-dependent bandgaps, which are emerging as promising saturable …