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Photonics Research
Vol. 6, Issue 11, 1062 (2018)

Low-noise 1.3 μm InAs/GaAs quantum dot laser monolithically grown on silicon | On the Cover

Mengya Liao¹, Siming Chen^1、*, Zhixin Liu¹, Yi Wang², Lalitha Ponnampalam¹, Zichuan Zhou¹, Jiang Wu¹, Mingchu Tang¹, Samuel Shutts³, Zizhuo Liu¹, Peter M. Smowton³, Siyuan Yu², Alwyn Seeds¹, and Huiyun Liu¹

Author Affiliations

¹Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London, London WC1E 7JE, UK

²State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China

³Department of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF24 3AA, UK

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Mengya Liao, Siming Chen, Zhixin Liu, Yi Wang, Lalitha Ponnampalam, Zichuan Zhou, Jiang Wu, Mingchu Tang, Samuel Shutts, Zizhuo Liu, Peter M. Smowton, Siyuan Yu, Alwyn Seeds, Huiyun Liu. Low-noise 1.3 μm InAs/GaAs quantum dot laser monolithically grown on silicon[J]. Photonics Research, 2018, 6(11): 1062 Copy Citation Text

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Mengya Liao, Siming Chen, Zhixin Liu, Yi Wang, Lalitha Ponnampalam, Zichuan Zhou, Jiang Wu, Mingchu Tang, Samuel Shutts, Zizhuo Liu, Peter M. Smowton, Siyuan Yu, Alwyn Seeds, Huiyun Liu. Low-noise 1.3 μm InAs/GaAs quantum dot laser monolithically grown on silicon[J]. Photonics Research, 2018, 6(11): 1062

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