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Photonics Research
Vol. 7, Issue 5, 573 (2019)

Visible Kerr comb generation in a high-Q silica microdisk resonator with a large wedge angle

Jiyang Ma¹, Longfu Xiao¹, Jiaxin Gu¹, Hao Li¹, Xinyu Cheng¹, Guangqiang He², Xiaoshun Jiang^1、*, and Min Xiao^1、3

Author Affiliations

¹National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences and School of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China

²State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Department of Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

³Department of Physics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, USA

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Jiyang Ma, Longfu Xiao, Jiaxin Gu, Hao Li, Xinyu Cheng, Guangqiang He, Xiaoshun Jiang, Min Xiao. Visible Kerr comb generation in a high-Q silica microdisk resonator with a large wedge angle[J]. Photonics Research, 2019, 7(5): 573 Copy Citation Text

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Jiyang Ma, Longfu Xiao, Jiaxin Gu, Hao Li, Xinyu Cheng, Guangqiang He, Xiaoshun Jiang, Min Xiao. Visible Kerr comb generation in a high-Q silica microdisk resonator with a large wedge angle[J]. Photonics Research, 2019, 7(5): 573

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