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Photonics Research
Vol. 6, Issue 2, 117 (2018)

Terahertz emission from localized modes in one-dimensional disordered systems [Invited]

Yongquan Zeng¹, Guozhen Liang¹, Bo Qiang¹, Bo Meng¹, Hou Kun Liang², Shampy Mansha³, Jianping Li⁴, Zhaohui Li⁵, Lianhe Li⁶, Alexander Giles Davies⁶, Edmund Harold Linfield⁶, Ying Zhang², Yidong Chong³, and Qi Jie Wang^1、3、*

Author Affiliations

¹Centre for Optoelectronics and Biophotonics, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798, Singapore

²Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, 2 Fusionopolis Way, Singapore 138634, Singapore

³School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 21 Nanyang Link, Singapore 637371, Singapore

⁴Institute of Photonics Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China

⁵State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Electronics and Information Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China

⁶School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK

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Yongquan Zeng, Guozhen Liang, Bo Qiang, Bo Meng, Hou Kun Liang, Shampy Mansha, Jianping Li, Zhaohui Li, Lianhe Li, Alexander Giles Davies, Edmund Harold Linfield, Ying Zhang, Yidong Chong, Qi Jie Wang. Terahertz emission from localized modes in one-dimensional disordered systems [Invited][J]. Photonics Research, 2018, 6(2): 117 Copy Citation Text

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Yongquan Zeng, Guozhen Liang, Bo Qiang, Bo Meng, Hou Kun Liang, Shampy Mansha, Jianping Li, Zhaohui Li, Lianhe Li, Alexander Giles Davies, Edmund Harold Linfield, Ying Zhang, Yidong Chong, Qi Jie Wang. Terahertz emission from localized modes in one-dimensional disordered systems [Invited][J]. Photonics Research, 2018, 6(2): 117

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