Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 20, Issue 10, 101301(2022)

Experimental investigation on the unbalanced Mach–Zehnder interferometer on lithium niobate thin film

Xuerui Sun1, Yinan Wu1, Chuanyi Lu1, Yuting Zhang1, Hao Li1, Shijie Liu1, Yuanlin Zheng1,2、*, and Xianfeng Chen1,2,3、**
Author Affiliations
  • 1State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
  • 2Shanghai Research Center for Quantum Sciences, Shanghai 201315, China
  • 3Collaborative Innovation Center of Light Manipulation and Applications, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, China
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    Xuerui Sun, Yinan Wu, Chuanyi Lu, Yuting Zhang, Hao Li, Shijie Liu, Yuanlin Zheng, Xianfeng Chen. Experimental investigation on the unbalanced Mach–Zehnder interferometer on lithium niobate thin film[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2022, 20(10): 101301

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    Paper Information

    Category: Integrated Optics

    Received: Mar. 5, 2022

    Accepted: May. 25, 2022

    Published Online: Jun. 27, 2022

    The Author Email: Yuanlin Zheng (ylzheng@sjtu.edu.cn), Xianfeng Chen (xfchen@sjtu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/COL202220.101301

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