Proposal and demonstration of a controllable Q factor in directly coupled microring resonators for optical buffering applications

Ying Zhang; Qiang Liu; Chenyang Mei; Desheng Zeng; Qingzhong Huang; Xinliang Zhang

doi:10.1364/PRJ.434151

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