Mid-infrared chalcogenide microfiber knot resonators

Yu Xie; Dawei Cai; Hao Wu; Jing Pan; Ning Zhou; Chenguang Xin; Shaoliang Yu; Pan Wang; Xiaoshun Jiang; Jianrong Qiu; Xin Guo; Limin Tong

doi:10.1364/PRJ.386395

Photonics Research, Volume. 8, Issue 4, 616(2020)

Mid-infrared chalcogenide microfiber knot resonators

Yu Xie¹, Dawei Cai¹, Hao Wu¹, Jing Pan¹, Ning Zhou¹, Chenguang Xin¹, Shaoliang Yu¹, Pan Wang¹, Xiaoshun Jiang², Jianrong Qiu¹, Xin Guo^1、*, and Limin Tong^1,3,4

Author Affiliations

¹State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China

²National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China

³Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China

⁴e-mail: phytong@zju.edu.cn

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Paper Information

Category: Optical Devices

Received: Dec. 19, 2019

Accepted: Feb. 15, 2020

Published Online: Apr. 1, 2020

The Author Email: Xin Guo (guoxin@zju.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.386395

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