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Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 61, Issue 19, 1913001(2024)

Progress in Dispersion Engineering for Integrated Microcombs (Invited)

Bitao Shen¹, Huajin Chang¹, Haowen Shu¹, and Xingjun Wang^1,2、*

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¹State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, School of Electronics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

²Nano-Optoelectronics Frontier Center of Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

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Category: Integrated Optics

Received: Jul. 1, 2024

Accepted: Aug. 13, 2024

Published Online: Oct. 11, 2024

The Author Email: Xingjun Wang (xjwang@pku.edu.cn)

DOI:10.3788/LOP241576

CSTR:32186.14.LOP241576

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