Photonics Research, Volume. 9, Issue 7, 1351(2021)

Directly accessing octave-spanning dissipative Kerr soliton frequency combs in an AlN microresonator

Haizhong Weng1、†, Jia Liu2、†, Adnan Ali Afridi1, Jing Li1, Jiangnan Dai2, Xiang Ma2, Yi Zhang2, Qiaoyin Lu2, John F. Donegan1,3、*, and Weihua Guo2,4、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1School of Physics, CRANN and AMBER, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
  • 2Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, and School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
  • 3e-mail: jdonegan@tcd.ie
  • 4e-mail: guow@mail.hust.edu.cn
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    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)

    DOI:10.1364/PRJ.427567

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