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Photonics Research, Volume. 8, Issue 7, 1183(2020)

Subwavelength thick ultrahigh-Q terahertz disc microresonators

Dominik Walter Vogt^1,2、*, Angus Harvey Jones^1,2, Thomas Alan Haase^1,2, and Rainer Leonhardt^1,2

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¹Department of Physics, The University of Auckland, Auckland 1010, New Zealand

²The Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand

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Paper Information

Category: Silicon Photonics

Received: Mar. 11, 2020

Accepted: May. 19, 2020

Published Online: Jun. 19, 2020

The Author Email: Dominik Walter Vogt (d.vogt@auckland.ac.nz)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.392288

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