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Advanced Photonics
Vol. 2, Issue 4, 046001 (2020)

Stretching the spectra of Kerr frequency combs with self-adaptive boundary silicon waveguides

Jianhao Zhang^1、*, Vincent Pelgrin¹, Carlos Alonso-Ramos¹, Laurent Vivien¹, Sailing He², and Eric Cassan^1、*

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¹Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies, Palaiseau, France

²Zhejiang University, Centre for Optical and Electromagnetic Research, State Key Laboratory for Modern Optical Instrumentation, Hangzhou, China

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Jianhao Zhang, Vincent Pelgrin, Carlos Alonso-Ramos, Laurent Vivien, Sailing He, Eric Cassan. Stretching the spectra of Kerr frequency combs with self-adaptive boundary silicon waveguides[J]. Advanced Photonics, 2020, 2(4): 046001 Copy Citation Text

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