Edge-Coupling Device on Lithium-Niobate-Integrated Photonic Chips (Invited)

Di Jia; Zhenzhong Hao; Fang Bo; Guoquan Zhang; Jingjun Xu

doi:10.3788/LOP240986

Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 61, Issue 11, 1116016(2024)

Edge-Coupling Device on Lithium-Niobate-Integrated Photonic Chips (Invited)

Di Jia... Zhenzhong Hao, Fang Bo*, Guoquan Zhang** and Jingjun Xu*** |Show fewer author(s)

The Key Laboratory of Weak Light Nonlinear Photonics, Ministry of Education, TEDA Institute of Applied Physics, School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300457, China

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