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Vol. 11, Issue 10, 1733 (2023)

Highly efficient on-chip erbium–ytterbium co-doped lithium niobate waveguide amplifiers

Yuqi Zhang¹, Qiang Luo¹, Dahuai Zheng^1,3, Shuolin Wang²..., Shiguo Liu¹, Hongde Liu^1,*, Fang Bo^1,4, Yongfa Kong^1,5 and Jingjun Xu^1,6|Show fewer author(s)

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¹MOE Key Laboratory of Weak-Light Nonlinear Photonics, TEDA Institute of Applied Physics and School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300457, China

²School of Science, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212100, China

³e-mail: dhzheng@nankai.edu.cn

⁴e-mail: bofang@nankai.edu.cn

⁵e-mail: kongyf@nankai.edu.cn

⁶e-mail: jjxu@nankai.edu.cn

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Yuqi Zhang, Qiang Luo, Dahuai Zheng, Shuolin Wang, Shiguo Liu, Hongde Liu, Fang Bo, Yongfa Kong, Jingjun Xu, "Highly efficient on-chip erbium–ytterbium co-doped lithium niobate waveguide amplifiers," Photonics Res. 11, 1733 (2023) Copy Citation Text

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Yuqi Zhang, Qiang Luo, Dahuai Zheng, Shuolin Wang, Shiguo Liu, Hongde Liu, Fang Bo, Yongfa Kong, Jingjun Xu, "Highly efficient on-chip erbium–ytterbium co-doped lithium niobate waveguide amplifiers," Photonics Res. 11, 1733 (2023)

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