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physics.optics2025

Monolithic low-noise erbium-doped thin-film lithium niobate waveguide amplifier with 18 dB fiber to fiber net gain

Mengqi Li, Jianping Yu, Zhe Wang +5

Erbium-doped waveguide amplifiers have captured great attentions in recent years due to the rapid advance of photonic integration materials and fabrication techniques. In this work…

physics.optics2024

An electro-optically tunable arrayed waveguide grating fabricated on thin film lithium niobate

Zhe Wang, 1 Zhiwei Fang, Yiran Zhu +6

We design and fabricate an 8-channel thin film lithium niobate (TFLN) arrayed-waveguide grating (AWG) and demonstrate the electro-optical tunability of the device. The monolithical…

physics.optics2024★ 2 cited

An erbium-doped waveguide amplifier on thin film lithium niobate with an output power exceeding 100 mW

Rui Bao, Zhiwei Fang, Jian Liu +6

We demonstrate high-power thin film lithium niobate (TFLN) erbium-doped waveguide amplifier (EDWA) with a maximum on-chip output power of 113 mW and a gain of 16 dB. The on-chip in…

physics.optics2024

On-chip wavelength division multiplexing by angled multimode interferometer fabricated on erbium-doped thin film lithium niobate on insulator

Jinli Han, Rui Bao, Rongbo Wu +9

Photonic integrated circuits based on erbium doped thin film lithium niobate on insulator has attracted broad interests with insofar various waveguide amplifiers and microlasers de…

physics.optics2023

Integrated electro-optically tunable narrow-linewidth III-V laser

Yiran Zhu, Shupeng Yu, Zhiwei Fang +8

We demonstrate an integrated electro-optically tunable narrow-linewidth III-V laser with an output power of 738.8 μW and an intrinsic linewidth of 45.55 kHz at the C band. The lase…

physics.optics2023

Thin Film Lithium Niobate Electro-optic Isolator Fabricated by photolithography assisted chemo-mechanical etching (PLACE)

Lang Gao, Youting Liang, Lvbin Song +10

We report a thin-film lithium niobate electro-optic isolator fabricated by photolithography-assisted chemo-mechanical etching in this work. The device demonstrates 39.50 dB isolati…

physics.optics2023★ 1 cited

Erbium-ytterbium co-doped lithium niobate single-mode microdisk laser with an ultralow threshold of 1 uW

Minghui Li, Renhong Gao, Chuntao Li +9

We demonstrate single-mode microdisk lasers in the telecom band with ultra-low thresholds on erbium-ytterbium co-doped thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN). The active microdisk were f…

physics.optics2023★ 4 cited

Generation of Kerr soliton microcomb in a normally dispersed lithium niobate microdisk resonator by mode trimming

Botao Fu, Renhong Gao, Ni Yao +6

Anomalous microresonator dispersion is mandatory for Kerr soliton microcomb formation, which depends critically on the geometry of the microresonator and can hardly be tuned after…

physics.optics2023★ 2 cited

On-chip coherent beam combination of waveguide amplifiers on Er-doped thin film lithium niobate

Rui Bao, Lvbin Song, Zhiwei Fang +9

We demonstrate on-chip coherent beam combination of two waveguide amplifiers on Er-doped thin film lithium niobate (Er: TFLN) platform. Our device is built based on an elect…

physics.optics2023★ 2 cited

On-chip arrayed waveguide grating fabricated on thin film lithium niobate

Zhe Wang, Zhiwei Fang, Zhaoxiang Liu +8

We design an on-chip 8-channel TFLN AWG and fabricate the device using photolithography assisted chemo-mechanical etching (PLACE) technique. We experimentally measure the transmiss…

physics.optics2023

Electro-optically programmable photonic circuits enabled by wafer-scale integration on thin-film lithium niobate

Yong Zheng, Haozong Zhong, Haisu Zhang +10

Programmable photonic circuits performing universal linear-optical transformations underpin vital functions in photonic quantum information processing, quantum-enhanced sensor netw…

physics.optics2022★ 47 cited

On-chip single-mode thin film lithium niobate laser based on Sagnac loop reflectors

Shupeng Yu, Zhiwei Fang, Zhe Wang +7

We demonstrate an on-chip single-mode Er3+-doped thin film lithium niobate (Er: TFLN) laser which consists of a Fabry-Pérot (FP) resonator based on Sagnac loop reflectors (SLRs). T…

physics.optics2022★ 7 cited

Monolithically integrated high-power narrow-bandwidth microdisk laser

Jianglin Guan, Chuntao Li, Renhong Gao +7

Integrated on-chip microdisk lasers have attracted great attention as a light source of compact size, low lasing threshold and narrow bandwidth. However, challenges remain unresolv…

physics.optics2022★ 1 cited

Modes trimming and clustering in a weakly perturbed high-Q whispering gallery microresonator

Botao Fu, Renhong Gao, Jintian Lin +6

In general, a high-Q microresonator can accommodate abundant whispering gallery modes (WGMs) with the mode number increasing with the dimensional sizes of the microresonator. Remov…

physics.optics2022★ 1 cited

Electro-optically tunable low phase-noise microwave synthesizer in an active lithium niobate microdisk

Renhong Gao, Botao Fu, Ni Yao +7

Photonic-based low-phase-noise microwave generation with real-time frequency tuning is crucial for a broad spectrum of subjects, including next-generation wireless communications,…

physics.optics2022

Monolithically integrated active passive waveguide array fabricated on thin film lithium niobate using a single continuous photolithography process

Yuan Zhou, Yiran Zhu, Zhiwei Fang +13

We demonstrate a robust low-loss optical interface by tiling passive (i.e., without doping of active ions) thin film lithium niobate (TFLN) and active (i.e., doped with rare earth…

physics.optics2022★ 37 cited

Electrically driven compact hybrid lithium niobate microring laser

Junxia Zhou, Ting Huang, Zhiwei Fang +7

We demonstrate an electrically driven compact hybrid lithium niobate microring laser by butt coupling a commercial 980-nm pump laser diode chip with a high quality Er3+-doped lithi…

physics.optics2022

On-chip integrated Yb3+-doped waveguide amplifiers on thin film lithium niobate

Zhihao Zhang, Zhiwei Fang, Junxia Zhou +10

We report the fabrication and optical characterization of Yb3+-doped waveguide amplifiers (YDWA) on the thin film lithium niobate fabricated by photolithography assisted chemo-mech…

physics.optics2022

Monolithically integrated waveguide-coupled single-frequency microlaser on erbium-doped thin film lithium niobate

Youting Liang, Junxia Zhou, Rongbo Wu +10

We overcome the difficulty in realizing a monolithic waveguide-coupled microring laser integrated on erbium-doped thin film lithium niobate (Er: TFLN) using photolithography assist…

physics.optics2021★ 5 cited

A high-gain cladded waveguide amplifier on erbium doped thin-film lithium niobate fabricated using photolithography assisted chemo-mechanical etching

Youting Liang, Junxia Zhou, Zhaoxiang Liu +9

Erbium doped integrated waveguide amplifier and laser prevail in power consumption, footprint, stability and scalability over the counterparts in bulk materials, underpinning the l…

physics.optics2021★ 31 cited

On-chip multi-color microdisk laser on Yb3+-doped thin-film lithium niobate

Yuan Zhou, Zhe Wang, Zhiwei Fang +12

We demonstrate an on-chip Yb3+-doped lithium niobate (LN) microdisk laser. The intrinsic quality factors of the fabricated Yb3+-doped LN microdisk resonator are measured up to 3.79…

physics.optics2021★ 1 cited

Coherent mode-combined ultra-narrow-linewidth single-mode micro-disk laser

Jintian Lin, Saeed Farajollahi, Zhiwei Fang +10

Integrated single-mode microlasers with ultra-narrow linewidths play a game-changing role in a broad spectrum of applications ranging from coherent communication and LIDAR to metro…

physics.optics2021★ 68 cited

An electro-optically tunable microring laser monolithically integrated on lithium niobate on insulator

Difeng Yin, Yuan Zhou, Zhaoxiang Liu +9

We demonstrate monolithic integration of an electro-optically (EO) tunable microring laser on lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI) platform. The device is fabricated by photolithogr…

physics.optics2021★ 80 cited

Broadband highly efficient nonlinear optical processes in on-chip integrated lithium niobate microdisk resonators of Q-factor above 10^8

Renhong Gao, Haisu Zhang, Fang Bo +9

We demonstrated broadband highly efficient optical nonlinear processes in on-chip integrated lithium niobate (LN) microdisk resonators. The Q factors of the micro-resonators fabric…