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Photonics Research, Volume. 11, Issue 9, 1509(2023)

Heterogeneous optomechanical crystal cavity coupled by a wavelength-scale mechanical waveguide

Yang Luo^1、†, Hongyi Huang^1、†, Lei Wan^1,2,5、*, Weiping Liu¹, and Zhaohui Li^3,4,6、*

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¹Department of Electronic Engineering, College of Information Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China

²International Institute for Innovative Design and Intelligent Manufacturing, Tianjin University, Shaoxing 312000, China

³Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Information Processing Chips and Systems, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China

⁴Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Zhuhai 519000, China

⁵e-mail: wanlei@jnu.edu.cn

⁶e-mail: lzhh88@sysu.edu.cn

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Paper Information

Category: Integrated Optics

Received: Apr. 25, 2023

Accepted: Jun. 25, 2023

Published Online: Aug. 28, 2023

The Author Email: Lei Wan (wanlei@jnu.edu.cn), Zhaohui Li (lzhh88@sysu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.494008

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