“…Here, some widely used insulating substrates for growing 2D GaS and GaSe, including SiO 2 , Al 2 O 3 , mica, SiC, and Si, are selected to test their impacts on the MO Kerr effect. Taken the wavelength of the incident light as 589 nm, the complex refractive indices (i.e., k = + n n i ) of above substrates are 1.544, 1.768, 2.450, 2.647, and 3.973+0.030i, respectively [44]. The Kerr angles of GaS and GaSe MLs versus different substrates are plotted in figures 5(c) and (f), from which one can find that the spectral structures are very similar for all of the substrates, while the Kerr angles are inversely proportional to the modulus of n. Obviously, the largest Kerr angle appears when the SiO 2 substrate having the smallest refractive index is adopted.…”