Wideband tunable REC-DFB laser array using thin-film heaters on the submount

Pan Dai; Zhuo Chen; Zhenxing Sun; Hantian Ge; Ji Dai; Jun Lu; Feng Wang; Rulei Xiao; Hua Tong; Rongrong Dou; Xiangfei Chen

doi:10.3788/COL202321.011406

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