High robustness, billion <i>Q</i> packaged microcavity devices for soliton microcombs

Fangxing Zhang; Shengnan Huangfu; Shengqiang Ji; Yanjie Bai; Xuanyi Zhang; Zijing Cai; Tinglan Chen; Bo Ni; Bowen Ruan; Jialüe Sun

doi:10.3788/COL202523.022601

Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 23, Issue 2, 022601(2025)

High robustness, billion Q packaged microcavity devices for soliton microcombs

Fangxing Zhang^1、*, Shengnan Huangfu¹, Shengqiang Ji¹, Yanjie Bai¹, Xuanyi Zhang^1,2, Zijing Cai^1,2, Tinglan Chen^1,2, Bo Ni^1,2, Bowen Ruan¹, and Jialüe Sun^1、**

Author Affiliations

¹Peking University Yangtze Delta Institute of Optoelectronics, Nantong 226010, China

²State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics and Frontiers Science Center for Nano-optoelectronics, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

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Received: Jun. 6, 2024

Accepted: Aug. 26, 2024

Published Online: Feb. 20, 2025

The Author Email: Fangxing Zhang (fangxing.zhang@ydioe.pku.edu.cn), Jialüe Sun (sunjl@ydioe.pku.edu.cn)

DOI:10.3788/COL202523.022601

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