High-harmonic generation in submicron-thick chirped periodically poled thin-film lithium niobate

Lingzhi Peng; Xiaoni Li; Liqiang Liu; Yuanyuan Liu; Yuanyuan Zhao; Xuanming Duan; Lihong Hong; Zhiyuan Li

doi:10.1364/PRJ.558257

Photonics Research, Volume. 13, Issue 7, 1917(2025)

High-harmonic generation in submicron-thick chirped periodically poled thin-film lithium niobate

Lingzhi Peng¹, Xiaoni Li¹, Liqiang Liu¹, Yuanyuan Liu¹, Yuanyuan Zhao², Xuanming Duan², Lihong Hong^1,3,4、*, and Zhiyuan Li^1,5、*

Author Affiliations

¹School of Physics and Optoelectronics, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510641, China

²Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optical Fiber Sensing and Communications, Institute of Photonics Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou 511443, China

³State Key Laboratory of Ultra-intense Laser Science and Technology and CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-intense Laser Science, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China

⁴e-mail: honglihong@siom.ac.cn

⁵e-mail: phzyli@scut.edu.cn

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Paper Information

Category: Nonlinear Optics

Received: Feb. 6, 2025

Accepted: Apr. 23, 2025

Published Online: Jul. 1, 2025

The Author Email: Lihong Hong (honglihong@siom.ac.cn), Zhiyuan Li (phzyli@scut.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.558257

CSTR:32188.14.PRJ.558257

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