On-chip chalcogenide microresonators with low-threshold parametric oscillation

Bin Zhang; Pingyang Zeng; Zelin Yang; Di Xia; Jiaxin Zhao; Yaodong Sun; Yufei Huang; Jingcui Song; Jingshun Pan; Huanjie Cheng; Dukyong Choi; Zhaohui Li

doi:10.1364/PRJ.422435

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