Four-wave mixing in 1.3 μm epitaxial quantum dot lasers directly grown on silicon

Jianan Duan; Bozhang Dong; Weng W. Chow; Heming Huang; Shihao Ding; Songtao Liu; Justin C. Norman; John E. Bowers; Frédéric Grillot

doi:10.1364/PRJ.448082

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