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Photonics Research, Volume. 7, Issue 11, 1279(2019)

Ultra-flat dispersion in an integrated waveguide with five and six zero-dispersion wavelengths for mid-infrared photonics Editors' Pick

Yuhao Guo1, Zeinab Jafari1,2, Lijuan Xu1,3, Changjing Bao4, Peicheng Liao4, Guifang Li5, Anuradha M. Agarwal6, Lionel C. Kimerling6, Jurgen Michel6, Alan E. Willner4, and Lin Zhang1、*
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  • 1Key Laboratory of Opto-electronic Information Technical Science of Ministry of Education and Key Laboratory of Integrated Opto-electronic Technologies and Devices in Tianjin, School of Precision Instruments and Opto-electronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
  • 2School of Computer and Electrical Engineering, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Fars, Iran
  • 3School of Electronic Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology and Education, Tianjin 300222, China
  • 4Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA
  • 5College of Optics and Photonics, CREOL and FPCE, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816, USA
  • 6Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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    Yuhao Guo, Zeinab Jafari, Lijuan Xu, Changjing Bao, Peicheng Liao, Guifang Li, Anuradha M. Agarwal, Lionel C. Kimerling, Jurgen Michel, Alan E. Willner, Lin Zhang, "Ultra-flat dispersion in an integrated waveguide with five and six zero-dispersion wavelengths for mid-infrared photonics," Photonics Res. 7, 1279 (2019)

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    Category: Integrated Optics

    Received: May. 24, 2019

    Accepted: Aug. 30, 2019

    Published Online: Oct. 28, 2019

    The Author Email: Lin Zhang (lin_zhang@tju.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1364/PRJ.7.001279

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