Efficient on-chip waveguide amplifiers in GeSbS-loaded etchless erbium-doped lithium niobate thin film

Chunxu Wang; Jingcui Song; Zhaohuan Ao; Yingyu Chen; Yongguang Xiao; Yifan Zhang; Qingming Chen; Xingwen Yi; Xueyang Li; Zhaohui Li

doi:10.1364/PRJ.555158

Photonics Research, Volume. 13, Issue 6, 1674(2025)

Efficient on-chip waveguide amplifiers in GeSbS-loaded etchless erbium-doped lithium niobate thin film

Chunxu Wang1...2, Jingcui Song1,5,*, Zhaohuan Ao1, Yingyu Chen1, Yongguang Xiao1, Yifan Zhang1,6,*, Qingming Chen3,4,7,*, Xingwen Yi1, Xueyang Li2, and Zhaohui Li14 |Show fewer author(s)

Author Affiliations

¹School of Electronics and Information Technology and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Information Processing Chips and Systems, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510006, China

²Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen 518000, China

³School of Microelectronics Science and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai 519000, China

⁴Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Zhuhai 519000, China

⁵e-mail: songjc3@mail.sysu.edu.cn

⁶e-mail: zhangyf376@mail.sysu.edu.cn

⁷e-mail: chenqm28@mail.sysu.edu.cn

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Chunxu Wang, Jingcui Song, Zhaohuan Ao, Yingyu Chen, Yongguang Xiao, Yifan Zhang, Qingming Chen, Xingwen Yi, Xueyang Li, Zhaohui Li, "Efficient on-chip waveguide amplifiers in GeSbS-loaded etchless erbium-doped lithium niobate thin film," Photonics Res. 13, 1674 (2025)

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