Hybrid silicon nonlinear photonics [Invited]

Ming Li; Lin Zhang; Li-Min Tong; Dao-Xin Dai

doi:10.1364/PRJ.6.000B13

Photonics Research, Volume. 6, Issue 5, B13(2018)

Hybrid silicon nonlinear photonics [Invited]

Ming Li¹, Lin Zhang², Li-Min Tong¹, and Dao-Xin Dai^1、*

¹Centre for Optical and Electromagnetic Research, JORCEP, State Key Laboratory for Modern Optical Instrumentation, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory for Sensing Technologies, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China

²Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education on Optoelectronic Information Technology, School of Precision Instruments and Optoelectronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China

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