Widely tunable 2.3 μm III-V-on-silicon Vernier lasers for broadband spectroscopic sensing

Ruijun Wang; Stephan Sprengel; Anton Vasiliev; Gerhard Boehm; Joris Van Campenhout; Guy Lepage; Peter Verheyen; Roel Baets; Markus-Christian Amann; Gunther Roelkens

doi:10.1364/PRJ.6.000858

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