• Infrared and Laser Engineering
  • Vol. 51, Issue 5, 20220311 (2022)
Huilan Tu1, Jia Liu1、*, Haizhong Weng2, Yudan Zhang1, Jiangnan Dai1, Qiaoyin Lu1, F. Donegan John2, and Weihua Guo1
Author Affiliations
  • 1Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics & School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
  • 2School of Physics, CRANN and AMBER, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
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    DOI: 10.3788/IRLA20220311 Cite this Article
    Huilan Tu, Jia Liu, Haizhong Weng, Yudan Zhang, Jiangnan Dai, Qiaoyin Lu, F. Donegan John, Weihua Guo. Octave-spanning soliton optical frequency comb based on AlN microring resonator (Invited)[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2022, 51(5): 20220311 Copy Citation Text show less
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    Huilan Tu, Jia Liu, Haizhong Weng, Yudan Zhang, Jiangnan Dai, Qiaoyin Lu, F. Donegan John, Weihua Guo. Octave-spanning soliton optical frequency comb based on AlN microring resonator (Invited)[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2022, 51(5): 20220311
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