Effects of third-order dispersion on temporal soliton compression in dispersion-engineered silicon photonic crystal waveguides

Jiali Liao; Yang Gao; Yanling Sun; Lin Ma; Zhenzhong Lu; Xiujian Li

doi:10.1364/PRJ.381371

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