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Photonics Research
Vol. 7, Issue 11, 1279 (2019)

Ultra-flat dispersion in an integrated waveguide with five and six zero-dispersion wavelengths for mid-infrared photonics | Editors' Pick

Yuhao Guo¹, Zeinab Jafari^1、2, Lijuan Xu^1、3, Changjing Bao⁴, Peicheng Liao⁴, Guifang Li⁵, Anuradha M. Agarwal⁶, Lionel C. Kimerling⁶, Jurgen Michel⁶, Alan E. Willner⁴, and Lin Zhang^1、*

Author Affiliations

¹Key Laboratory of Opto-electronic Information Technical Science of Ministry of Education and Key Laboratory of Integrated Opto-electronic Technologies and Devices in Tianjin, School of Precision Instruments and Opto-electronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China

²School of Computer and Electrical Engineering, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Fars, Iran

³School of Electronic Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology and Education, Tianjin 300222, China

⁴Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA

⁵College of Optics and Photonics, CREOL and FPCE, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816, USA

⁶Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA

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Yuhao Guo, Zeinab Jafari, Lijuan Xu, Changjing Bao, Peicheng Liao, Guifang Li, Anuradha M. Agarwal, Lionel C. Kimerling, Jurgen Michel, Alan E. Willner, Lin Zhang. Ultra-flat dispersion in an integrated waveguide with five and six zero-dispersion wavelengths for mid-infrared photonics[J]. Photonics Research, 2019, 7(11): 1279 Copy Citation Text

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Yuhao Guo, Zeinab Jafari, Lijuan Xu, Changjing Bao, Peicheng Liao, Guifang Li, Anuradha M. Agarwal, Lionel C. Kimerling, Jurgen Michel, Alan E. Willner, Lin Zhang. Ultra-flat dispersion in an integrated waveguide with five and six zero-dispersion wavelengths for mid-infrared photonics[J]. Photonics Research, 2019, 7(11): 1279

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