Highly integrated photonic crystal bandedge lasers monolithically grown on Si substrates

Yaoran Huang; Taojie Zhou; Mingchu Tang; Guohong Xiang; Haochuan Li; Mickael Martin; Thierry Baron; Siming Chen; Huiyun Liu; Zhaoyu Zhang

doi:10.3788/COL202220.041401

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