Electrically injected GeSn lasers with peak wavelength up to 2.7 μm

Yiyin Zhou; Solomon Ojo; Chen-Wei Wu; Yuanhao Miao; Huong Tran; Joshua M. Grant; Grey Abernathy; Sylvester Amoah; Jake Bass; Gregory Salamo; Wei Du; Guo-En Chang; Jifeng Liu; Joe Margetis; John Tolle; Yong-Hang Zhang; Greg Sun; Richard A. Soref; Baohua Li; Shui-Qing Yu

doi:10.1364/PRJ.443144

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