Multi-gigahertz laser generation based on monolithic ridge waveguide and embedded copper nanoparticles

Chi Pang; Rang Li; Ziqi Li; Ningning Dong; Jun Wang; Feng Ren; Feng Chen

doi:10.3788/COL202119.021301

Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 19, Issue 2, 021301(2021)

Multi-gigahertz laser generation based on monolithic ridge waveguide and embedded copper nanoparticles Editors' Pick

Chi Pang1... Rang Li1,2, Ziqi Li1, Ningning Dong3, Jun Wang3, Feng Ren4 and Feng Chen1,* |Show fewer author(s)

Author Affiliations

¹School of Physics, State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China

²Collaborative Innovation Center of Light Manipulations and Applications, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, China

³Key Laboratory of Materials for High-Power Laser, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China

⁴Department of Physics, Center for Ion Beam Application and Center for Electron Microscopy, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China

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