Photon propagation control on laser-written photonic chips enabled by composite waveguides

Ze-Zheng Li; Zhen-Nan Tian; Zhong-Tian Li; Yang Ouyang; Qi-Dai Chen; Hong-Bo Sun

doi:10.1364/PRJ.484407

Photonics Research, Volume. 11, Issue 5, 829(2023)

Photon propagation control on laser-written photonic chips enabled by composite waveguides

Ze-Zheng Li¹, Zhen-Nan Tian^1,3、*, Zhong-Tian Li¹, Yang Ouyang¹, Qi-Dai Chen¹, and Hong-Bo Sun^1,2,4、*

¹State Key Laboratory of Integrated Optoelectronics, College of Electronic Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China

²State Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instruments, Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

³e-mail: zhennan_tian@jlu.edu.cn

⁴e-mail: hbsun@tsinghua.edu.cn

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Paper Information

Category: Integrated Optics

Received: Dec. 26, 2022

Accepted: Feb. 23, 2023

Published Online: May. 4, 2023

The Author Email: Zhen-Nan Tian (zhennan_tian@jlu.edu.cn), Hong-Bo Sun (hbsun@tsinghua.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.484407

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laser devices and laser physics

Lasers and Laser Optics

Laser physics

laser manufacturing

Instrumentation, Measurement and Metrology