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Photonics Research, Volume. 7, Issue 5, 503(2019)

Reconfigurable directional coupler in lithium niobate crystal fabricated by three-dimensional femtosecond laser focal field engineering

Qian Zhang1, Meng Li1, Jian Xu2, Zijie Lin2, Haofeng Yu2, Min Wang2, Zhiwei Fang2, Ya Cheng2,3, Qihuang Gong1,3, and Yan Li1,3、*
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  • 1State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, Department of Physics, Peking University and Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing 100871, China
  • 2State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
  • 3Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China
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    Qian Zhang, Meng Li, Jian Xu, Zijie Lin, Haofeng Yu, Min Wang, Zhiwei Fang, Ya Cheng, Qihuang Gong, Yan Li, "Reconfigurable directional coupler in lithium niobate crystal fabricated by three-dimensional femtosecond laser focal field engineering," Photonics Res. 7, 503 (2019)

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    Category: Integrated Optics

    Received: Dec. 11, 2018

    Accepted: Mar. 1, 2019

    Published Online: Apr. 12, 2019

    The Author Email: Yan Li (li@pku.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1364/PRJ.7.000503

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    Lasers and Laser Optics
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