Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 19, Issue 6, 060008(2021)
On-chip erbium-doped lithium niobate waveguide amplifiers [Invited]
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Qiang Luo, Chen Yang, Zhenzhong Hao, Ru Zhang, Dahuai Zheng, Fang Bo, Yongfa Kong, Guoquan Zhang, Jingjun Xu, "On-chip erbium-doped lithium niobate waveguide amplifiers [Invited]," Chin. Opt. Lett. 19, 060008 (2021)
Category: Special Issue on Lithium Niobate Based Photonic Devices
Received: Feb. 24, 2021
Accepted: Mar. 26, 2021
Published Online: May. 8, 2021
The Author Email: Fang Bo (bofang@nankai.edu.cn), Yongfa Kong (kongyf@nankai.edu.cn), Guoquan Zhang (zhanggq@nankai.edu.cn), Jingjun Xu (jjxu@nankai.edu.cn)