Dispersion Engineering of Magnesium Fluoride Wedge Resonator and Numerical Analysis for Soliton Generation

Yuan Shen; Lingjun Meng; Mengyu Wang; Yu Yang; Keyi Wang

doi:10.3788/AOS202141.0323001

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