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Photonics Research
Vol. 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、*}

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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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Ze-Zheng Li, Zhen-Nan Tian, Zhong-Tian Li, Yang Ouyang, Qi-Dai Chen, Hong-Bo Sun. Photon propagation control on laser-written photonic chips enabled by composite waveguides[J]. Photonics Research, 2023, 11(5): 829 Copy Citation Text

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