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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 Chen1、*, Jianrong Qiu2, Shuai Zhang3、**, and Zhijun Ma1、***
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  • 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," Chin. Opt. Lett. 21, 051601 (2023)

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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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