Narrow-linewidth thermally tuned multi-channel interference widely tunable semiconductor laser with thermal tuning power below 50 mW

Quanan Chen; Chun Jiang; Kuankuan Wang; Miao Zhang; Xiang Ma; Ye Liu; Qiaoyin Lu; Weihua Guo

doi:10.1364/PRJ.380002

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