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Photonics Research, Volume. 8, Issue 9, 1475(2020)

Broadband quasi-phase-matching in dispersion-engineered all-optically poled silicon nitride waveguides

Edgars Nitiss1, Boris Zabelich1, Ozan Yakar1, Junqiu Liu2, Rui Ning Wang2, Tobias J. Kippenberg2, and Camille-Sophie Brès1、*
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  • 1Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Photonic Systems Laboratory (PHOSL), STI-IEL, Station 11, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
  • 2Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurements (LPQM), SB-IPHYS, Station 3, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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    Edgars Nitiss, Boris Zabelich, Ozan Yakar, Junqiu Liu, Rui Ning Wang, Tobias J. Kippenberg, Camille-Sophie Brès, "Broadband quasi-phase-matching in dispersion-engineered all-optically poled silicon nitride waveguides," Photonics Res. 8, 1475 (2020)

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    Category: Integrated Optics

    Received: Apr. 29, 2020

    Accepted: Jul. 10, 2020

    Published Online: Aug. 24, 2020

    The Author Email: Camille-Sophie Brès (camille.bres@epfl.ch)

    DOI:10.1364/PRJ.396489

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