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Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 44, Issue 15, 1513031(2024)

Novel Optoelectronic Oscillators (Invited)

Tengfei Hao1,2,3, Mingjian Li1,2,3, Shiyu Xiao1,2,3, Wei Li1,2,3, Yitang Dai4, and Ming Li1,2,3、*
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  • 1Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 10083, China
  • 2School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • 3Center of Materials Science and Opto-Electronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
  • 4State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China
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    Tengfei Hao, Mingjian Li, Shiyu Xiao, Wei Li, Yitang Dai, Ming Li. Novel Optoelectronic Oscillators (Invited)[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2024, 44(15): 1513031

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    Category: Integrated Optics

    Received: May. 20, 2024

    Accepted: Jun. 20, 2024

    Published Online: Jul. 31, 2024

    The Author Email: Li Ming (ml@semi.ac.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/AOS241042

    CSTR:32393.14.AOS241042

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