Photonics Research, Volume. 9, Issue 7, 1351(2021)
Directly accessing octave-spanning dissipative Kerr soliton frequency combs in an AlN microresonator
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Haizhong Weng, Jia Liu, Adnan Ali Afridi, Jing Li, Jiangnan Dai, Xiang Ma, Yi Zhang, Qiaoyin Lu, John F. Donegan, Weihua Guo, "Directly accessing octave-spanning dissipative Kerr soliton frequency combs in an AlN microresonator," Photonics Res. 9, 1351 (2021)
Category: Nonlinear Optics
Received: Apr. 12, 2021
Accepted: May. 13, 2021
Published Online: Jul. 5, 2021
The Author Email: John F. Donegan (jdonegan@tcd.ie), Weihua Guo (guow@mail.hust.edu.cn)