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Photonics Research
Vol. 8, Issue 4, 534 (2020)

Laser-induced rotary micromotor with high energy conversion efficiency

Yu Zhang¹, Siyu Lin¹, Zhihai Liu^1、2、4, Yaxun Zhang^1、*, Jianzhong Zhang¹, Jun Yang¹, and Libo Yuan³

Author Affiliations

¹Key Laboratory of In-fiber Integrated Optics, Ministry of Education, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China

²National Demonstration Center for Experimental Physics Education, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China

³Photonics Research Center, Guilin University of Electronics Technology, Guilin 541004, China

⁴e-mail: liuzhihai@hrbeu.edu.cn

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