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Photonics Research, Volume. 9, Issue 2, 171(2021)

Controllable two-dimensional Kerr and Raman–Kerr frequency combs in microbottle resonators with selectable dispersion

Xueying Jin^1,3, Xin Xu^1,4, Haoran Gao¹, Keyi Wang², Haojie Xia¹, and Liandong Yu^1、*

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¹School of Instrument Science and Opto-electronics Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, China

²Department of Precision Machinery and Precision Instrumentation, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China

³e-mail: xyjin007@hfut.edu.cn

⁴e-mail: xuxin@hfut.edu.cn

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Category: Optical Devices

Received: Aug. 27, 2020

Accepted: Dec. 8, 2020

Published Online: Jan. 29, 2021

The Author Email: Liandong Yu (liandongyu@hfut.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.408492

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