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IEEE Photonics Conference

Optical Properties of Rare Earth Ion Arrays Embedded into Lithium Niobate Micro-ring Resonators

Dongmin Pak, Arindam Nandi, Michael Titze, Edward S. Bielejec, Mahdi Hosseini

Published Oct 1, 2021• 0 citations
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Abstract

We investigate the optical properties of an array of thulium ions implanted into a lithium niobate ring resonator. We present the data showing that the ions' emission rate increases at 4K due to both cavity-induced Purcell enhancement and also array-induced cooperative coupling.
DOI
10.1109/ipc48725.2021.9592868

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