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Photonics Research, Volume. 13, Issue 2, 360(2025)

Integrated optical switches based on Kerr symmetry breaking in microresonators Editors' Pick

Yaojing Zhang1,2、†, Shuangyou Zhang1,3、†, Alekhya Ghosh1,4, Arghadeep Pal1,4, George N. Ghalanos1,5, Toby Bi1,4, Haochen Yan1,4, Hao Zhang1,6, Yongyong Zhuang7, Lewis Hill1, and Pascal Del’Haye1,4、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
  • 2School of Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518172, China
  • 3Department of Electrical and Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby 2800, Denmark
  • 4Department of Physics, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
  • 5Akhetonics GmbH, 10823 Berlin, Germany
  • 6Key Laboratory of Radar Imaging and Microwave Photonics, Ministry of Education, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China
  • 7Electronic Materials Research Laboratory, Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education & International Center for Dielectric Research, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China
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    Yaojing Zhang, Shuangyou Zhang, Alekhya Ghosh, Arghadeep Pal, George N. Ghalanos, Toby Bi, Haochen Yan, Hao Zhang, Yongyong Zhuang, Lewis Hill, Pascal Del’Haye, "Integrated optical switches based on Kerr symmetry breaking in microresonators," Photonics Res. 13, 360 (2025)

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    Paper Information

    Category: Nonlinear Optics

    Received: Sep. 16, 2024

    Accepted: Nov. 4, 2024

    Published Online: Jan. 16, 2025

    The Author Email: Pascal Del’Haye (pascal.delhaye@mpl.mpg.de)

    DOI:10.1364/PRJ.542111

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