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Photonics Research
Vol. 7, Issue 5, 503 (2019)

Reconfigurable directional coupler in lithium niobate crystal fabricated by three-dimensional femtosecond laser focal field engineering

Qian Zhang¹, Meng Li¹, Jian Xu², Zijie Lin², Haofeng Yu², Min Wang², Zhiwei Fang², Ya Cheng^2、3, Qihuang Gong^1、3, and Yan Li^1、3、*

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¹State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, Department of Physics, Peking University and Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing 100871, China

²State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China

³Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China

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Qian Zhang, Meng Li, Jian Xu, Zijie Lin, Haofeng Yu, Min Wang, Zhiwei Fang, Ya Cheng, Qihuang Gong, Yan Li. Reconfigurable directional coupler in lithium niobate crystal fabricated by three-dimensional femtosecond laser focal field engineering[J]. Photonics Research, 2019, 7(5): 503 Copy Citation Text

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Qian Zhang, Meng Li, Jian Xu, Zijie Lin, Haofeng Yu, Min Wang, Zhiwei Fang, Ya Cheng, Qihuang Gong, Yan Li. Reconfigurable directional coupler in lithium niobate crystal fabricated by three-dimensional femtosecond laser focal field engineering[J]. Photonics Research, 2019, 7(5): 503

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