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20202026
most citedA photonic integrated circuit based erbium-doped amplifier

391 citations · 738 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

physics.optics2026

A fully integrated dispersion-managed femtosecond mode-locked laser

Xurong Li, Xuan Yang, Zheru Qiu +7

Femtosecond lasers underpin applications ranging from material processing to corneal surgery, while their regular pulse trains form optical frequency combs that have revolutionized…

physics.optics2026

Strong enhancement of Er3+ emission at room temperature in Si3N4 metasurfaces

Fengkai Wei, Xinru Ji, Tobias J. Kippenberg +2

We report a significant enhancement of room-temperature photoluminescence from trivalent erbium-doped (Er3+) silicon nitride (Si3N4) metasurfaces at the telecommunication wavelengt…

physics.optics2025★ 9 cited

High-pulse-energy integrated mode-locked lasers based on a Mamyshev oscillator

Zheru Qiu, Jianqi Hu, Xuan Yang +9

Ultrafast lasers have unlocked numerous advances across science and technology: they enable corneal surgery, reveal chemical reaction dynamics, and underpin optical atomic clocks.…

physics.optics2025★ 1 cited

Heterogeneously integrated lithium tantalate-on-silicon nitride modulators for high-speed communications

Jiachen Cai, Alexander Kotz, Hugo Larocque +7

Driven by the prospects of higher bandwidths for optical interconnects, integrated modulators involving materials beyond those available in silicon manufacturing increasingly rely…

physics.optics2025★ 3 cited

Narrow-linewidth, piezoelectrically tunable photonic integrated blue laser

Anat Siddharth, Asger B. Gardner, Xinru Ji +8

Frequency-agile lasers operating in the ultraviolet-to-blue spectral range (360-480 nm) are critical enablers for a wide range of technologies, including free-space and underwater…

physics.optics2025

Hyperparametric solitons in nondegenerate optical parametric oscillators

Haizhong Weng, Xinru Ji, Mugahid Ali +7

Dissipative solitons and their associated low-noise, chip-scale frequency combs hold great potential for applications in optical communications, spectroscopy, precision time-keepin…

physics.optics2025★ 12 cited

Copper-impurity-free photonic integrated circuits enable deterministic soliton microcombs

Xinru Ji, Xurong Li, Zheru Qiu +5

Chip-scale optical frequency combs based on microresonators (microcombs) enable GHz-THz repetition rates, broad bandwidth, compactness, and compatibility with wafer-scale manufactu…

physics.optics2025★ 3 cited

Integrated tunable green light source on silicon nitride

Gang Wang, Ozan Yakar, Xinru Ji +7

Integrated green light sources are essential for telecommunications and quantum applications, while the performance of current on-chip green light generation is still limited in po…

physics.optics2025★ 3 cited

Full C- and L-band tunable erbium-doped integrated lasers via scalable manufacturing

Xinru Ji, Xuan Yang, Yang Liu +8

Erbium (Er) ions are the gain medium of choice for fiber-based amplifiers and lasers, offering a long excited-state lifetime, slow gain relaxation, low amplification nonlinearity a…

physics.optics2025

Terabit-class coherent communications enabled by an integrated photonics erbium doped amplifier

Di Che, Stefano Grillanda, Yang Liu +7

Coherent technologies have revolutionized optical communications, driving the capacity per fiber to multi-terabit per second (Tb/s) in combination with wavelength division multiple…

physics.optics2024★ 37 cited

Foundry compatible, efficient wafer-scale manufacturing of ultra-low loss, high-density SiN photonic integrated circuits

Xinru Ji, Rui Ning Wang, Yang Liu +3

Silicon nitride (SiN) photonic integrated circuits (PICs) have shown low linear loss, negligible nonlinear loss, and high power handling over traditional silicon photonics.…

physics.optics2024★ 3 cited

Large-scale photonic chip based pulse interleaver for low-noise microwave generation

Zheru Qiu, Neetesh Singh, Yang Liu +4

Microwaves generated by optical techniques have demonstrated unprecedentedly low noise and hold significance in various applications such as communication, radar, instrumentation,…

physics.optics2023★ 5 cited

Hydrogen-free low-temperature silica for next generation integrated photonics

Zheru Qiu, Zihan Li, Rui Ning Wang +4

The advances in novel low-loss "on insulator" integrated photonics platforms beyond silicon, such as thin-film LiNbO3, LiTaO3, GaP and BaTiO3 have demonstrated major potential acro…

physics.optics2023★ 235 cited

Lithium tantalate electro-optical photonic integrated circuits for high volume manufacturing

Chengli Wang, Zihan Li, Johann Riemensberger +11

Photonic integrated circuits based on Lithium Niobate have demonstrated the vast capabilities afforded by material with a high Pockels coefficient, allowing linear and high-speed m…

physics.app-ph2023★ 1 cited

Photonic-electronic integrated circuit-based coherent LiDAR engine

Anton Lukashchuk, Halil Kerim Yildirim, Andrea Bancora +8

Microelectronic integration is a key enabler for the ubiquitous deployment of devices in large volumes ranging from MEMS and imaging sensors to consumer electronics. Such integrati…

physics.optics2023★ 8 cited

A fully hybrid integrated Erbium-based laser

Yang Liu, Zheru Qiu, Xinru Ji +6

Erbium-doped fiber lasers exhibit high coherence and low noise as required for applications in fiber optic sensing, gyroscopes, LiDAR, and optical frequency metrology. Endowing Erb…

physics.optics2022★ 391 cited

A photonic integrated circuit based erbium-doped amplifier

Yang Liu, Zheru Qiu, Xinru Ji +7

Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers have revolutionized long-haul optical communications and laser technology. Erbium ions could equally provide a basis for efficient optical amplificati…

physics.optics2021★ 4 cited

Compact, spatial-mode-interaction-free, ultralow-loss, nonlinear photonic integrated circuits

Xinru Ji, Junqiu Liu, Jijun He +4

Nonlinear photonics based on integrated circuits has enabled applications such as parametric amplifiers, soliton frequency combs, supercontinua, and non-reciprocal devices. Ultralo…

physics.optics2020★ 23 cited

Protected generation of dissipative Kerr solitons in supermodes of coupled optical microresonators

Alexey Tikan, Aleksandr Tusnin, Johann Riemensberger +6

The driven-dissipative photonic dimer comprised of two evanescently coupled high-Q microresonators is a fundamental element of multimode soliton lattices. It has demonstrated a var…