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Photonics Research, Volume. 13, Issue 1, 40(2025)

Correction of laser sweeping nonlinearities using ultralow-loss on-chip 7 m spiral resonators

Osama Terra^1,2, Warren Jin^1,3, Hussein Kotb⁴, Joel Guo¹, and John E. Bowers^1、*

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¹Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA

²Primary Length and Laser Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards, Giza, Egypt

³Anello Photonics, Santa Clara, California 95054, USA

⁴Department of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

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Category: Silicon Photonics

Received: Mar. 25, 2024

Accepted: Aug. 20, 2024

Published Online: Dec. 13, 2024

The Author Email: John E. Bowers (bowers@ece.ucsb.edu)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.524620

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laser devices and laser physics

Lasers and Laser Optics

laser manufacturing

Instrumentation, Measurement and Metrology