Hundredfold increase of stimulated Brillouin-scattering bandwidth in whispering-gallery mode resonators

Guoping Lin; Jingyi Tian; Tang Sun; Qinghai Song; Yanne K. Chembo

doi:10.1364/PRJ.484727

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