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Vol. 5, Issue 2, 73 (2017)

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Guanzhong Wang¹, Mingming Zhao¹, Yingchun Qin¹, Zhangqi Yin², Xiaoshun Jiang^1、*, and Min Xiao^1、3

Author Affiliations

¹National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China

²Center for Quantum Information, Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

³Department of Physics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, USA

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Guanzhong Wang, Mingming Zhao, Yingchun Qin, Zhangqi Yin, Xiaoshun Jiang, Min Xiao. Demonstration of an ultra-low-threshold phonon laser with coupled microtoroid resonators in vacuum[J]. Photonics Research, 2017, 5(2): 73 Copy Citation Text

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