Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 19, Issue 6, 060008(2021)

On-chip erbium-doped lithium niobate waveguide amplifiers [Invited]

Qiang Luo1, Chen Yang1, Zhenzhong Hao1, Ru Zhang1, Dahuai Zheng1, Fang Bo1,2,3、*, Yongfa Kong1、**, Guoquan Zhang1、***, and Jingjun Xu1、****
Author Affiliations
  • 1MOE Key Laboratory of Weak-Light Nonlinear Photonics, TEDA Institute of Applied Physics and School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300457, China
  • 2Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China
  • 3Collaborative Innovation Center of Light Manipulations and Applications, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, China
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    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)

    DOI:10.3788/COL202119.060008

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