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Photonics Research, Volume. 12, Issue 4, 701(2024)

Universal silicon ring resonator for error-free transmission links

Junbo Zhu1,2,3, Weiwei Zhang1、*, Ke Li1,4, Bharat Pant1, Martin Ebert1, Xingzhao Yan1, Mehdi Banakar1, Dehn T. Tran1, Callum G. Littlejohns1, Fuwan Gan2, Graham Reed1, and David J. Thomson1,5
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  • 1Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
  • 2National Key Laboratory of Materials for Integrated Circuits, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China
  • 3University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • 4Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China
  • 5e-mail: d.thomson@soton.ac.uk
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    Junbo Zhu, Weiwei Zhang, Ke Li, Bharat Pant, Martin Ebert, Xingzhao Yan, Mehdi Banakar, Dehn T. Tran, Callum G. Littlejohns, Fuwan Gan, Graham Reed, David J. Thomson, "Universal silicon ring resonator for error-free transmission links," Photonics Res. 12, 701 (2024)

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    Paper Information

    Category: Silicon Photonics

    Received: Oct. 13, 2023

    Accepted: Dec. 21, 2023

    Published Online: Mar. 20, 2024

    The Author Email: Weiwei Zhang (weiwei.zhang@soton.ac.uk)

    DOI:10.1364/PRJ.509237

    CSTR:32188.14.PRJ.509237

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