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Photonics Research
Vol. 6, Issue 11, 987 (2018)

Broadband athermal waveguides and resonators for datacom and telecom applications

Liuqing He^1、2, Yuhao Guo^1、2, Zhaohong Han³, Kazumi Wada^3、4, Jurgen Michel³, Anuradha M. Agarwal³, Lionel C. Kimerling³, Guifang Li^1、2、5, and Lin Zhang^1、2、*

Author Affiliations

¹Key Laboratory of Opto-electronic Information Technical Science of Ministry of Education, School of Precision Instruments and Opto-electronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China

²Key Laboratory of Integrated Opto-electronic Technologies and Devices in Tianjin, School of Precision Instruments and Opto-electronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China

³Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA

⁴Department of Materials Engineering, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan

⁵College of Optics and Photonics, CREOL and FPCE, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816, USA

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Liuqing He, Yuhao Guo, Zhaohong Han, Kazumi Wada, Jurgen Michel, Anuradha M. Agarwal, Lionel C. Kimerling, Guifang Li, Lin Zhang. Broadband athermal waveguides and resonators for datacom and telecom applications[J]. Photonics Research, 2018, 6(11): 987 Copy Citation Text

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Liuqing He, Yuhao Guo, Zhaohong Han, Kazumi Wada, Jurgen Michel, Anuradha M. Agarwal, Lionel C. Kimerling, Guifang Li, Lin Zhang. Broadband athermal waveguides and resonators for datacom and telecom applications[J]. Photonics Research, 2018, 6(11): 987

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