Fabrication of nonlinear photonic crystals with few-micrometer periodicity via vacuum pyroelectric poling

Dingwei Liu; Xinyu Liu; Dan Wei; Yuntao Mo; Lei Shi; Dunzhao Wei

doi:10.3788/COL202523.081902

Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 23, Issue 8, 081902(2025)

Fabrication of nonlinear photonic crystals with few-micrometer periodicity via vacuum pyroelectric poling

Dingwei Liu¹, Xinyu Liu¹, Dan Wei^2、*, Yuntao Mo¹, Lei Shi¹, and Dunzhao Wei^1、**

¹State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Physics, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China

²School of Electronic Engineering & Intelligentization, Dongguan University of Technology, Dongguan 523808, China

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Paper Information

Category: Nonlinear Optics

Received: Jan. 24, 2025

Accepted: Apr. 14, 2025

Published Online: Aug. 1, 2025

The Author Email: Dan Wei (weidan@dgut.edu.cn), Dunzhao Wei (weidzh@mail.sysu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.3788/COL202523.081902

CSTR:32184.14.COL202523.081902

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