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    Journals >Acta Optica Sinica >Volume 44 >Issue 15 >Page 1513031 > Article
    • Acta Optica Sinica
    • Vol. 44, Issue 15, 1513031 (2024)
    Novel Optoelectronic Oscillators (Invited)
    Tengfei Hao1,2,3, Mingjian Li1,2,3, Shiyu Xiao1,2,3, Wei Li1,2,3..., Yitang Dai4 and Ming Li1,2,3,*|Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 10083, China
  • 2School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • 3Center of Materials Science and Opto-Electronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
  • 4State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/AOS241042 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Tengfei Hao, Mingjian Li, Shiyu Xiao, Wei Li, Yitang Dai, Ming Li. Novel Optoelectronic Oscillators (Invited)[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2024, 44(15): 1513031 Copy Citation Text show less
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