Quantum dot fourth-harmonic colliding pulse mode-locked laser for high-power optical comb generation

Jing-Zhi Huang; Bo Yang; Jia-Jian Chen; Jia-Le Qin; Xinlun Cai; Jie Yan; Xi Xiao; Zi-Hao Wang; Ting Wang; Jian-Jun Zhang

doi:10.1364/PRJ.525382

Photonics Research, Volume. 12, Issue 9, 1991(2024)

Quantum dot fourth-harmonic colliding pulse mode-locked laser for high-power optical comb generation

Jing-Zhi Huang1...2, Bo Yang1,2, Jia-Jian Chen1,3, Jia-Le Qin1,2, Xinlun Cai4, Jie Yan5, Xi Xiao5, Zi-Hao Wang1,2,3,6, Ting Wang1,2,3,*, and Jian-Jun Zhang1,23 |Show fewer author(s)

Author Affiliations

¹Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

²Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

³Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan 523808, China

⁴State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China

⁵National Information Optoelectronics Innovation Center, Wuhan 430074, China

⁶e-mail: wangzihao@iphy.ac.cn

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