Highly efficient on-chip erbium–ytterbium co-doped lithium niobate waveguide amplifiers

Yuqi Zhang; Qiang Luo; Dahuai Zheng; Shuolin Wang; Shiguo Liu; Hongde Liu; Fang Bo; Yongfa Kong; Jingjun Xu

doi:10.1364/PRJ.497947

Photonics Research, Volume. 11, Issue 10, 1733(2023)

Highly efficient on-chip erbium–ytterbium co-doped lithium niobate waveguide amplifiers

Yuqi Zhang¹, Qiang Luo¹, Dahuai Zheng^1,3, Shuolin Wang², Shiguo Liu¹, Hongde Liu^1、*, Fang Bo^1,4, Yongfa Kong^1,5, and Jingjun Xu^1,6

Author Affiliations

¹MOE Key Laboratory of Weak-Light Nonlinear Photonics, TEDA Institute of Applied Physics and School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300457, China

²School of Science, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212100, China

³e-mail: dhzheng@nankai.edu.cn

⁴e-mail: bofang@nankai.edu.cn

⁵e-mail: kongyf@nankai.edu.cn

⁶e-mail: jjxu@nankai.edu.cn

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Paper Information

Category: Integrated Optics

Received: Jun. 14, 2023

Accepted: Jul. 30, 2023

Published Online: Sep. 27, 2023

The Author Email: Hongde Liu (liuhd97@nankai.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.497947

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