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Photonics Research, Volume. 6, Issue 9, 925(2018)

High-Q germanium optical nanocavity

Ting-Hui Xiao^1、†, Ziqiang Zhao^2、†, Wen Zhou^3、†, Mitsuru Takenaka², Hon Ki Tsang³, Zhenzhou Cheng^1、*, and Keisuke Goda^1,4,5

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¹Department of Chemistry, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan

²Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan

³Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR, China

⁴Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA

⁵e-mail: goda@chem.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp

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Paper Information

Category: Integrated Optics

Received: Apr. 23, 2018

Accepted: Jul. 16, 2018

Published Online: Sep. 5, 2018

The Author Email: Zhenzhou Cheng (zzcheng@chem.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.6.000925

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