On-chip microlaser and waveguide amplifier on thin-film erbium-doped tantalum pentoxide

Jian Liu; Qifeng Hou; Yuan Zhou; Qingya Dai; Zhaoxiang Liu; Min Wang; Renhong Gao; Zhiwei Fang; Jintian Lin; Ya Cheng

doi:10.3788/COL202523.071302

Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 23, Issue 7, 071302(2025)

On-chip microlaser and waveguide amplifier on thin-film erbium-doped tantalum pentoxide Editors' Pick

Jian Liu¹, Qifeng Hou^2,3, Yuan Zhou², Qingya Dai⁴, Zhaoxiang Liu⁴, Min Wang⁴, Renhong Gao^4、*, Zhiwei Fang^4,5、**, Jintian Lin^2,3,8、***, and Ya Cheng^{1,2,4,5,6,7,8,9、****}

Author Affiliations

¹State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China

²State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics and CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-Intense Laser Science, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China

³School of Physical Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China

⁴The Extreme Optoelectromechanics Laboratory (XXL), School of Physics and Electronic Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China

⁵Hefei National Laboratory, Hefei 230088, China

⁶Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China

⁷Collaborative Innovation Center of Light Manipulations and Applications, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, China

⁸Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

⁹Shanghai Research Center for Quantum Sciences, Shanghai 201315, China

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Paper Information

Category: Integrated Optics

Received: Jan. 14, 2025

Accepted: Apr. 3, 2025

Published Online: Jun. 11, 2025

The Author Email: Renhong Gao (rhgao@phy.ecnu.edu.cn), Zhiwei Fang (zwfang@phy.ecnu.edu.cn), Jintian Lin (jintianlin@siom.ac.cn), Ya Cheng (ya.cheng@siom.ac.cn)

DOI:10.3788/COL202523.071302

CSTR:32184.14.COL202523.071302

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