Optical frequency comb in silicon nitride microresonator（Invited)

Jin Li; Piyu Wang; Zhengyu Wang; Rui Niu; Shuai Wan; Guangcan Guo; Chunhua Dong

doi:10.3788/IRLA20220302

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