All-optical carrier recovery for self-homodyne detection via injection locked Brillouin laser in whispering-gallery-mode microcavity

Boyuan Liu; Yong Geng; Qiang Zhang; Xinjie Han; Jing Xu; Heng Zhou; Kun Qiu

doi:10.3788/COL202119.111901

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