Wavelength and reflectivity tunable hybrid integrated external cavity laser using cascaded micro-rings with wide-bandwidth adjustable Sagnac-loop reflectors

Zhuping Fan; Xiongshuo Yan; Jun Zou; Xuan Li; Jianyi Yang; Hongtao Lin

doi:10.3788/COL202523.081301

Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 23, Issue 8, 081301(2025)

Wavelength and reflectivity tunable hybrid integrated external cavity laser using cascaded micro-rings with wide-bandwidth adjustable Sagnac-loop reflectors

Zhuping Fan1... Xiongshuo Yan1, Jun Zou1,*, Xuan Li1,3, Jianyi Yang1,2,**, and Hongtao Lin12,*** |Show fewer author(s)

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¹ZJU-Hangzhou Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Center, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 311215, China

²State Key Lab of Brain-Machine Intelligence, Key Laboratory of Micro-Nano Electronics and Smart System of Zhejiang Province, College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China

³College of Science, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310023, China

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Zhuping Fan, Xiongshuo Yan, Jun Zou, Xuan Li, Jianyi Yang, Hongtao Lin, "Wavelength and reflectivity tunable hybrid integrated external cavity laser using cascaded micro-rings with wide-bandwidth adjustable Sagnac-loop reflectors," Chin. Opt. Lett. 23, 081301 (2025)

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