Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 19, Issue 6, 060010(2021)
High-Q lithium niobate microring resonators using lift-off metallic masks [Invited]
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Ke Zhang, Zhaoxi Chen, Hanke Feng, Wing-Han Wong, Edwin Yue-Bun Pun, Cheng Wang, "High-Q lithium niobate microring resonators using lift-off metallic masks [Invited]," Chin. Opt. Lett. 19, 060010 (2021)
Category: Special Issue on Lithium Niobate Based Photonic Devices
Received: Mar. 7, 2021
Accepted: Apr. 7, 2021
Published Online: May. 13, 2021
The Author Email: Cheng Wang (cwang257@cityu.edu.hk)