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Photonics Research, Volume. 5, Issue 6, B29(2017)

Single-mode lasing via loss engineering in fiber-taper-coupled polymer bottle microresonators

Fuming Xie1, Ni Yao2, Wei Fang2, Haifeng Wang1, Fuxing Gu1、*, and Songlin Zhuang1
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  • 1Shanghai Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Systems, Engineering Research Center of Optical Instrument and System (Ministry of Education), University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China
  • 2State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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    Fuming Xie, Ni Yao, Wei Fang, Haifeng Wang, Fuxing Gu, Songlin Zhuang. Single-mode lasing via loss engineering in fiber-taper-coupled polymer bottle microresonators[J]. Photonics Research, 2017, 5(6): B29

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    Category: OPTICAL MICROCAVITIES

    Received: Jun. 9, 2017

    Accepted: Sep. 5, 2017

    Published Online: Dec. 7, 2017

    The Author Email: Fuxing Gu (fuxinggu@gmail.com)

    DOI:10.1364/PRJ.5.000B29

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