Experimental demonstration of TE/TM polarization-independent frequency upconversion assisted by polarization coupling

Tingting Ding; Yongzhi Tang; Xuerui Sun; Yiwen Huang; Bei Jiang; Jin Liu; Zhiwei Li; Yuanlin Zheng; Xianfeng Chen

doi:10.3788/COL202321.121901

Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 21, Issue 12, 121901(2023)

Experimental demonstration of TE/TM polarization-independent frequency upconversion assisted by polarization coupling

Tingting Ding¹, Yongzhi Tang², Xuerui Sun², Yiwen Huang², Bei Jiang¹, Jin Liu¹, Zhiwei Li¹, Yuanlin Zheng^2,3、*, and Xianfeng Chen^2,3,4、**

Author Affiliations

¹School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai 201620, China

²State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

³Shanghai Research Center for Quantum Sciences, Shanghai 201315, China

⁴Collaborative Innovation Center of Light Manipulation and Applications, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, China

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Paper Information

Category: Nonlinear Optics

Received: Mar. 10, 2023

Accepted: Jul. 14, 2023

Published Online: Nov. 22, 2023

The Author Email: Yuanlin Zheng (ylzheng@sjtu.edu.cn), Xianfeng Chen (xfchen@sjtu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.3788/COL202321.121901

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