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Photonics Research
Vol. 6, Issue 4, 238 (2018)

Influences of multiphoton absorption and free-carrier effects on frequency-comb generation in normal dispersion silicon microresonators

Mulong Liu^1,2, Leiran Wang^1,2,*, Qibing Sun¹, Siqi Li^1,2..., Zhiqiang Ge^1,2, Zhizhou Lu^1,2, Weiqiang Wang^1,2, Guoxi Wang^1,2, Wenfu Zhang^1,2,3, Xiaohong Hu¹ and Wei Zhao^1,2|Show fewer author(s)

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¹State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics (XIOPM), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Xi’an 710119, China

²University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

³e-mail: wfuzhang@opt.ac.cn

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Mulong Liu, Leiran Wang, Qibing Sun, Siqi Li, Zhiqiang Ge, Zhizhou Lu, Weiqiang Wang, Guoxi Wang, Wenfu Zhang, Xiaohong Hu, Wei Zhao, "Influences of multiphoton absorption and free-carrier effects on frequency-comb generation in normal dispersion silicon microresonators," Photonics Res. 6, 238 (2018) Copy Citation Text

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