Advances in on-chip photonic devices based on lithium niobate on insulator

J Lin, F Bo, Y Cheng, J Xu - Photonics Research, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Crystalline lithium niobate (LN) is an important optical material because of its broad
transmission window that spans from ultraviolet to mid-infrared and its large nonlinear and …

Optical waveguides in lithium niobate: Recent developments and applications

M Bazzan, C Sada - Applied Physics Reviews, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
The state of the art of optical waveguide fabrication in lithium niobate is reviewed, with
particular emphasis on new technologies and recent applications. The attention is mainly …

Advances in lithium niobate thin-film lasers and amplifiers: a review

Q Luo, F Bo, Y Kong, G Zhang, J Xu - Advanced Photonics, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Lithium niobate (LN) thin film has received much attention as an integrated photonic
platform, due to its rich and great photoelectric characteristics, based on which various …

Optically pumped planar waveguide lasers: Part II: Gain media, laser systems, and applications

C Grivas - Progress in Quantum Electronics, 2016 - Elsevier
The field of optically pumped planar waveguide lasers has seen a rapid development over
the last two decades driven by the requirements of a range of applications. This sustained …

On-chip waveguide amplifiers for multi-band optical communications: a review and challenge

Z Chen, L Wan, S Gao, K Zhu, M Zhang, Y Li… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Erbium (Er)-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) has achieved great success in modern optical
communications for decades due to its outstanding gain performance in C-band. Nowadays …

Electro-optically tunable single-frequency lasing from neodymium-doped lithium niobate microresonators

Y Minet, SJ Herr, I Breunig, H Zappe, K Buse - Optics Express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Tunable light sources are a key enabling technology for many applications such as ranging,
spectroscopy, optical coherence tomography, digital imaging and interferometry. For …

Swift carbon ion irradiated Nd: YAG ceramic optical waveguide amplifier

Y Tan, Q Luan, F Liu, S Akhmadaliev, S Zhou… - Optics …, 2013 - opg.optica.org
A high-gain optical waveguide amplifier has been realized in a channel waveguide platform
of Nd: YAG ceramic produced by swift carbon ion irradiation with metal masking. The …

1.76 μm on-chip gain characteristics of Tm3+ in a rib waveguide based on Tm3+-doped LiNbO3 thin-film on insulator

FS Meng, YJ Yang, F Chen, JM Liu, DL Zhang - Journal of Luminescence, 2024 - Elsevier
A theoretical study has been performed on 1.76 μm on-chip amplification characteristics of
Tm 3+ in a rib waveguide of LiNbO 3 on insulator (Tm: LNOI) under 795 nm wavelength …

High-gain optical waveguide amplifier based on proton beam writing of Nd: YAG crystal

Y Tan, Z Shang, SK Vanga, AA Bettiol, F Chen - Optics Express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
We report on an optical amplifier based on a Nd: YAG channel waveguide, which was
fabricated by proton beam writing. Under the pumping of a continuous wave laser, the high …

Near-noiseless and small-footprint phase sensitive optical parametric amplifier using AlGaAs-on-insulator waveguides

Z Xie, S Jia, W Shao, X Han, Y Su, J Meng, D Gao… - Applied Optics, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Phase sensitive amplifiers (PSAs) based on optical parametric amplification feature near
noiseless amplification, which is of considerable benefit for improving the performance of …