Program-controlled single soliton microcomb source

Xinyu Wang; Peng Xie; Weiqiang Wang; Yang Wang; Zhizhou Lu; Leiran Wang; Sai T. Chu; Brent E. Little; Wei Zhao; Wenfu Zhang

doi:10.1364/PRJ.408612

Photonics Research, Volume. 9, Issue 1, 66(2021)

Program-controlled single soliton microcomb source

Xinyu Wang^1,2, Peng Xie^1,2, Weiqiang Wang^1,2,4、*, Yang Wang^1,2, Zhizhou Lu^1,2, Leiran Wang^1,2, Sai T. Chu³, Brent E. Little^1,2, Wei Zhao^1,2, and Wenfu Zhang^1,2,5、*

Author Affiliations

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

³Department of Physics and Materials Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

⁴e-mail: wwq@opt.ac.cn

⁵e-mail: wfuzhang@opt.ac.cn

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Category: Optical Devices

Received: Aug. 27, 2020

Accepted: Nov. 22, 2020

Published Online: Dec. 25, 2020

The Author Email: Weiqiang Wang (wwq@opt.ac.cn), Wenfu Zhang (wfuzhang@opt.ac.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.408612

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