All-optical tuning of a multi-walled carbon nanotube-coated microcavity

Jihui Zheng; Youwei Wang; Xiaoling Jin; Chen Jiang; Bing Sun; Fumin Zhang; Zuxing Zhang

doi:10.3788/COL202523.071405

Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 23, Issue 7, 071405(2025)

All-optical tuning of a multi-walled carbon nanotube-coated microcavity

Jihui Zheng1...2, Youwei Wang1, Xiaoling Jin1, Chen Jiang1, Bing Sun1, Fumin Zhang2 and Zuxing Zhang1,* |Show fewer author(s)

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¹Advanced Photonic Technology Laboratory, College of Electronic and Optical Engineering and College of Flexible Electronics (Future Technology), Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210023, China

²State Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instruments, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China

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Jihui Zheng, Youwei Wang, Xiaoling Jin, Chen Jiang, Bing Sun, Fumin Zhang, Zuxing Zhang, "All-optical tuning of a multi-walled carbon nanotube-coated microcavity," Chin. Opt. Lett. 23, 071405 (2025)

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