Highly efficient, tunable, ultrabroadband NIR photoemission from Bi-doped nitridated germanate glasses toward all-band amplification in optical communication

Fuguang Chen; Zhi Chen; Jianrong Qiu; Shuai Zhang; Zhijun Ma

doi:10.3788/COL202321.051601

Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 21, Issue 5, 051601(2023)

Highly efficient, tunable, ultrabroadband NIR photoemission from Bi-doped nitridated germanate glasses toward all-band amplification in optical communication

Fuguang Chen¹, Zhi Chen^1、*, Jianrong Qiu², Shuai Zhang^3、**, and Zhijun Ma^1、***

Author Affiliations

¹Research Center for Humanoid Sensing, Zhejiang Lab, Hangzhou 311121, China

²State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China

³Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou 311100, China

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Fuguang Chen, Zhi Chen, Jianrong Qiu, Shuai Zhang, Zhijun Ma. Highly efficient, tunable, ultrabroadband NIR photoemission from Bi-doped nitridated germanate glasses toward all-band amplification in optical communication[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2023, 21(5): 051601

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Category: Optical Materials

Received: Nov. 16, 2022

Accepted: Jan. 17, 2023

Published Online: May. 23, 2023

The Author Email: Zhi Chen (zhichen@zhejianglab.edu.cn), Shuai Zhang (zhsrenl@163.com), Zhijun Ma (zhijma@zhejianglab.com)

DOI:10.3788/COL202321.051601

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