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Photonics Research
Vol. 11, Issue 8, A10 (2023)

Mitigating fast thermal instability by engineered laser sweep in AlN soliton microcomb generation

Kewei Liu^1、†, Zihao Wang^1、†, Shunyu Yao¹, Yanan Guo^2、3, Jianchang Yan^2、3, Junxi Wang^2、3, Changxi Yang¹, and Chengying Bao^1、*

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¹State Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instruments, Department of Precision Instruments, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

²Center for Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

³Research and Development Center for Solid State Lighting, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, China

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Kewei Liu, Zihao Wang, Shunyu Yao, Yanan Guo, Jianchang Yan, Junxi Wang, Changxi Yang, Chengying Bao. Mitigating fast thermal instability by engineered laser sweep in AlN soliton microcomb generation[J]. Photonics Research, 2023, 11(8): A10 Copy Citation Text

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