First demonstration of lithium niobate photonic chip for dense wavelength-division multiplexing transmitters

Hongxuan Liu; Bingcheng Pan; Huan Li; Zejie Yu; Liu Liu; Yaocheng Shi; Daoxin Dai

doi:10.1117/1.AP.6.6.066001

Advanced Photonics, Volume. 6, Issue 6, 066001(2024)

First demonstration of lithium niobate photonic chip for dense wavelength-division multiplexing transmitters

Hongxuan Liu^1、†, Bingcheng Pan¹, Huan Li¹, Zejie Yu^1,2,3, Liu Liu^1,2,3,4, Yaocheng Shi^1,2,3,4, and Daoxin Dai^1,2,3,4、*

Author Affiliations

¹Zhejiang University, State Key Laboratory for Extreme Photonics and Instrumentation, College of Optical Science and Engineering, International Research Center for Advanced Photonics, Hangzhou, China

²Jiaxing Key Laboratory of Photonic Sensing and Intelligent Imaging, Jiaxing, China

³Jiaxing Research Institute Zhejiang University, Intelligent Optics and Photonics Research Center, Jiaxing, China

⁴Zhejiang University, Ningbo Research Institute, Ningbo, China

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