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Photonics Research
Vol. 11, Issue 11, 1870 (2023)

Resonance cavity-enhanced all-optical switching in a GdCo alloy absorber

Yunqing Jiang^1、2、†, Xiaoqiang Zhang^{1、2、†,*}, Houyi Cheng^1、2、†, Huan Liu³, Yong Xu^1、2、6, Anting Wang⁴, Cong Wang¹, Stéphane Mangin⁵, and Weisheng Zhao^1、2

Author Affiliations

¹School of Integrated Circuit Science and Engineering, Hefei Innovation Research Institute, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China

²Anhui High Reliability Chips Engineering Laboratory, Hefei 230013, China

³School of Energy and Power Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China

⁴Department of Optics and Optical Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China

⁵Institut Jean Lamour, UMR CNRS 7198, Universite de Lorraine, Nancy 54011, France

⁶e-mail: yongxu@buaa.edu.cn

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Yunqing Jiang, Xiaoqiang Zhang, Houyi Cheng, Huan Liu, Yong Xu, Anting Wang, Cong Wang, Stéphane Mangin, Weisheng Zhao. Resonance cavity-enhanced all-optical switching in a GdCo alloy absorber[J]. Photonics Research, 2023, 11(11): 1870 Copy Citation Text

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