On-chip tunable parity‐time symmetric optoelectronic oscillator

Lin Wang; Xi Xiao; Lu Xu; Yifan Liu; Yu Chen; Yuan Yu; Xinliang Zhang

doi:10.1117/1.APN.2.1.016004

Advanced Photonics Nexus, Volume. 2, Issue 1, 016004(2023)

On-chip tunable parity‐time symmetric optoelectronic oscillator

Lin Wang^1、†, Xi Xiao^2,3, Lu Xu³, Yifan Liu¹, Yu Chen¹, Yuan Yu^1,4、*, and Xinliang Zhang^1,4、*

¹Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics and School of Optical and Electronic Information, Wuhan, China

²China Information and Communication Technologies Group Corporation, State Key Laboratory of Optical Communication Technologies and Networks, Wuhan, China

³National Information Optoelectronics Innovation Center, Wuhan, China

⁴Optics Valley Laboratory, Wuhan, China

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Paper Information

Category: Research Articles

Received: Sep. 5, 2022

Accepted: Dec. 5, 2022

Published Online: Jan. 11, 2023

The Author Email: Yuan Yu (yuan_yu@hust.edu.cn), Xinliang Zhang (xlzhang@mail.hust.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1117/1.APN.2.1.016004

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