Fabrication of silicon nitride-based integrated microcavity optical frequency comb devices (Invited)

Zhendong Zhu; Pingwei Lin; Zhaoyang Sun; Benfeng Bai; Xueshen Wang

doi:10.3788/IRLA20220214

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