Efficient Nonlinear Frequency Conversion in Microscale Thin-Film Lithium Niobate Ridge Waveguides (Invited)

Wenjun Ding; Yuting Zhang; Jing Qiu; Yongzhi Tang; Jing Zhang; Tingting Ding; Hao Li; Shijie Liu; Yuanlin Zheng; Xianfeng Chen

doi:10.3788/AOS240647

Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 44, Issue 15, 1513006(2024)

Efficient Nonlinear Frequency Conversion in Microscale Thin-Film Lithium Niobate Ridge Waveguides (Invited)

Wenjun Ding1... Yuting Zhang1, Jing Qiu1, Yongzhi Tang1, Jing Zhang2, Tingting Ding3, Hao Li1, Shijie Liu1, Yuanlin Zheng1,4,*, and Xianfeng Chen1,25,** |Show fewer author(s)

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¹State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

²Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, China

³School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai 201620, China

⁴Shanghai Research Center for Quantum Sciences, Shanghai 201315, China

⁵Shandong Provincial Engineering and Technical Center of Light Manipulations, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, Shandong , China

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Wenjun Ding, Yuting Zhang, Jing Qiu, Yongzhi Tang, Jing Zhang, Tingting Ding, Hao Li, Shijie Liu, Yuanlin Zheng, Xianfeng Chen. Efficient Nonlinear Frequency Conversion in Microscale Thin-Film Lithium Niobate Ridge Waveguides (Invited)[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2024, 44(15): 1513006

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