Supercontinuum generation using long-period-grating waveguides on silicon

Hongzhi Xiong; Xinmin Yao; Qingrui Yao; Qingbo Wu; Hongyuan Cao; Yaoxin Bao; Fei Huang; Zejie Yu; Ming Zhang; Daoxin Dai

doi:10.1117/1.APN.4.1.016014

Advanced Photonics Nexus, Volume. 4, Issue 1, 016014(2025)

Supercontinuum generation using long-period-grating waveguides on silicon

Hongzhi Xiong¹, Xinmin Yao¹, Qingrui Yao¹, Qingbo Wu¹, Hongyuan Cao¹, Yaoxin Bao¹, Fei Huang¹, Zejie Yu¹, Ming Zhang², and Daoxin Dai^1,2、*

Author Affiliations

¹Zhejiang University, College of Optical Science and Engineering, International Research Center for Advanced Photonics, State Key Laboratory for Modern Optical Instrumentation, Center for Optical and Electromagnetic Research, Hangzhou, China

²Zhejiang University, Ningbo Research Institute, Ningbo, China

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Paper Information

Category: Research Articles

Received: Jul. 29, 2024

Accepted: Dec. 5, 2024

Published Online: Feb. 10, 2025

The Author Email: Daoxin Dai (dxdai@zju.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1117/1.APN.4.1.016014

CSTR:32397.14.1.APN.4.1.016014

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