Generation of High Repetition Rate Broadband Flat Coherent Optical Frequency Comb Based on Tantalum Pentoxide Integrated Nonlinear Optical Waveguide

WU Chun-jiang; FENG Su-chun

doi:10.3788/gzxb20194810.1048003

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