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Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 20, Issue 1, 011902(2022)

Lithium niobate microring with ultra-high Q factor above 108 On the Cover

Renhong Gao1,6, Ni Yao2, Jianglin Guan3,4, Li Deng3,4, Jintian Lin1,6、*, Min Wang3,4, Lingling Qiao1, Wei Fang5, and Ya Cheng1,3,4,6,7,8,9、**
Author Affiliations
  • 1State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics and CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-Intense Laser Science, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shanghai 201800, China
  • 2Research Center for Intelligent Sensing, Zhejiang Lab, Hangzhou 311100, China
  • 3XXL—The Extreme Optoelectromechanics Laboratory, School of Physics and Electronic Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
  • 4State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
  • 5State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
  • 6Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • 7Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China
  • 8Collaborative Innovation Center of Light Manipulations and Applications, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, China
  • 9Shanghai Research Center for Quantum Sciences, Shanghai 201315, China
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    Renhong Gao, Ni Yao, Jianglin Guan, Li Deng, Jintian Lin, Min Wang, Lingling Qiao, Wei Fang, Ya Cheng, "Lithium niobate microring with ultra-high Q factor above 108," Chin. Opt. Lett. 20, 011902 (2022)

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    Category: Nonlinear Optics

    Received: Sep. 9, 2021

    Accepted: Sep. 15, 2021

    Posted: Sep. 16, 2021

    Published Online: Nov. 4, 2021

    The Author Email: Jintian Lin (jintianlin@siom.ac.cn), Ya Cheng (ya.cheng@siom.ac.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/COL202220.011902

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