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Photonics Research, Volume. 12, Issue 6, 1283(2024)

Ka-band thin film lithium niobate photonic integrated optoelectronic oscillator Editors' Pick

Rui Ma1, Zijun Huang1, Shengqian Gao1, Jingyi Wang1, Xichen Wang2, Xian Zhang1, Peng Hao2,4、*, X. Steve Yao2,3,5、*, and Xinlun Cai1,6、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Electronics and Information Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
  • 2Photonics Information Innovation Center and Hebei Provincial Center for Optical Sensing, College of Physics Science and Technology, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, China
  • 3NuVison Photonics, Inc., Las Vegas, Nevada 89109, USA
  • 4e-mail: haopeng@hbu.edu.cn
  • 5e-mail: syao@ieee.org
  • 6e-mail: caixlun5@mail.sysu.edu.cn
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    Rui Ma, Zijun Huang, Shengqian Gao, Jingyi Wang, Xichen Wang, Xian Zhang, Peng Hao, X. Steve Yao, Xinlun Cai, "Ka-band thin film lithium niobate photonic integrated optoelectronic oscillator," Photonics Res. 12, 1283 (2024)

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    Paper Information

    Category: Optoelectronics

    Received: Feb. 9, 2024

    Accepted: Apr. 3, 2024

    Published Online: May. 30, 2024

    The Author Email: Peng Hao (haopeng@hbu.edu.cn), X. Steve Yao (syao@ieee.org), Xinlun Cai (caixlun5@mail.sysu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1364/PRJ.521301

    CSTR:32188.14.PRJ.521301

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    laser devices and laser physics
    Lasers and Laser Optics
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