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Photonics Research
Vol. 5, Issue 6, B29 (2017)

Single-mode lasing via loss engineering in fiber-taper-coupled polymer bottle microresonators

Fuming Xie¹, Ni Yao², Wei Fang², Haifeng Wang¹, Fuxing Gu^1、*, and Songlin Zhuang¹

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¹Shanghai Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Systems, Engineering Research Center of Optical Instrument and System (Ministry of Education), University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China

²State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China

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Fuming Xie, Ni Yao, Wei Fang, Haifeng Wang, Fuxing Gu, Songlin Zhuang. Single-mode lasing via loss engineering in fiber-taper-coupled polymer bottle microresonators[J]. Photonics Research, 2017, 5(6): B29 Copy Citation Text

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Fuming Xie, Ni Yao, Wei Fang, Haifeng Wang, Fuxing Gu, Songlin Zhuang. Single-mode lasing via loss engineering in fiber-taper-coupled polymer bottle microresonators[J]. Photonics Research, 2017, 5(6): B29

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