Variable-curvature microresonators for dual-wavelength lasing

Min Tang; Yong-Zhen Huang; Yue-De Yang; Hai-Zhong Weng; Zhi-Xiong Xiao

doi:10.1364/PRJ.5.000695

Photonics Research, Volume. 5, Issue 6, 695(2017)

Variable-curvature microresonators for dual-wavelength lasing

Min Tang, Yong-Zhen Huang^*, Yue-De Yang, Hai-Zhong Weng, and Zhi-Xiong Xiao

State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics, Institute of Semiconductors, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, China

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Paper Information

Category: Lasers and Laser Optics

Received: Jul. 25, 2017

Accepted: Oct. 7, 2017

Published Online: Dec. 7, 2017

The Author Email: Yong-Zhen Huang (yzhuang@semi.ac.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.5.000695

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