Chip-scale Kerr optical frequency comb for wavelength-division multiplexing optical fiber communications (Invited)

Yanlan Xiao; Yanping Yang; Zhengyuxiao Yang; Jiahao Hu; Danni Jin; Yong Geng; Heng Zhou

doi:10.3788/IRLA20220291

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