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Photonics Research
Vol. 11, Issue 9, 1509 (2023)

Heterogeneous optomechanical crystal cavity coupled by a wavelength-scale mechanical waveguide

Yang Luo^1、†, Hongyi Huang^1、†, Lei Wan^{1、2、5、*}, Weiping Liu¹, and Zhaohui Li^{3、4、6、*}

Author Affiliations

¹Department of Electronic Engineering, College of Information Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China

²International Institute for Innovative Design and Intelligent Manufacturing, Tianjin University, Shaoxing 312000, China

³Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Information Processing Chips and Systems, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China

⁴Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Zhuhai 519000, China

⁵e-mail: wanlei@jnu.edu.cn

⁶e-mail: lzhh88@sysu.edu.cn

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