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Frequency comb generation from the ultraviolet to mid-infrared region based on a three-stage cascaded PPLN chain Editors' Pick

Xiong Qin^1、†, Daping Luo^1、†, Lian Zhou^1,2、*, Jiayi Pan¹, Zejiang Deng¹, Gehui Xie¹, Chenglin Gu¹, and Wenxue Li^1,3、*

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¹State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China

²e-mail: lzhou@lps.ecnu.edu.cn

³e-mail: wxli@phy.ecnu.edu.cn

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Xiong Qin, Daping Luo, Lian Zhou, Jiayi Pan, Zejiang Deng, Gehui Xie, Chenglin Gu, Wenxue Li, "Frequency comb generation from the ultraviolet to mid-infrared region based on a three-stage cascaded PPLN chain," Photonics Res. 12, 2012 (2024)

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Paper Information

Category: Instrumentation and Measurements

Received: May. 6, 2024

Accepted: Jun. 17, 2024

Published Online: Aug. 28, 2024

The Author Email: Lian Zhou (lzhou@lps.ecnu.edu.cn), Wenxue Li (wxli@phy.ecnu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.528880

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