Erbium-ytterbium co-doped lithium niobate single-mode microdisk laser with an ultralow threshold of 1 µW

Minghui Li; Renhong Gao; Chuntao Li; Jianglin Guan; Haisu Zhang; Jintian Lin; Guanghui Zhao; Qian Qiao; Min Wang; Lingling Qiao; Li Deng; Ya Cheng

doi:10.3788/COL202422.041301

Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 22, Issue 4, 041301(2024)

Erbium-ytterbium co-doped lithium niobate single-mode microdisk laser with an ultralow threshold of 1 µW

Minghui Li^1,2, Renhong Gao^1,2, Chuntao Li^3,4, Jianglin Guan^3,4, Haisu Zhang³, Jintian Lin^1,2、*, Guanghui Zhao^1,5, Qian Qiao^1,5, Min Wang², Lingling Qiao¹, Li Deng², and Ya Cheng^{1,2,3,6,7、**}

Author Affiliations

¹State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics and CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-Intense Laser Science, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shanghai 201800, China

²Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

³XXL—The Extreme Optoelectromechanics Laboratory, School of Physics and Electronic Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China

⁴State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China

⁵School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 200031, China

⁶Shanghai Research Center for Quantum Sciences, Shanghai 201315, China

⁷Hefei National Laboratory, Hefei 230088, China

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Minghui Li, Renhong Gao, Chuntao Li, Jianglin Guan, Haisu Zhang, Jintian Lin, Guanghui Zhao, Qian Qiao, Min Wang, Lingling Qiao, Li Deng, Ya Cheng. Erbium-ytterbium co-doped lithium niobate single-mode microdisk laser with an ultralow threshold of 1 µW[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2024, 22(4): 041301

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Paper Information

Category: Integrated Optics

Received: Sep. 19, 2023

Accepted: Dec. 15, 2023

Published Online: Apr. 18, 2024

The Author Email: Jintian Lin (jintianlin@siom.ac.cn), Ya Cheng (ya.cheng@siom.ac.cn)

DOI:10.3788/COL202422.041301

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