Athermal third harmonic generation in micro-ring resonators

Shaohao Wang; Yuhua Li; Brent E. Little; Leiran Wang; Xiang Wang; Roy R. Davidson; Sai Tak Chu

doi:10.29026/oea.2020.200028

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