Broadband continuous-wave mid-infrared wavelength conversion in high-<italic toggle="yes">Q</i> silicon microring resonators

Zhiwei Yan; Qiyuan Yi; Qiyuan Li; Guanglian Cheng; Shuai Cui; Lipeng Xia; Fanglu Xu; Xinzhe Xiong; Zengfan Shen; Shuang Zheng; Yuan Yu; Yi Zou; Li Shen

doi:10.1364/PRJ.528109

Photonics Research, Volume. 12, Issue 10, 2257(2024)

Broadband continuous-wave mid-infrared wavelength conversion in high-Q silicon microring resonators

Zhiwei Yan1... Qiyuan Yi1, Qiyuan Li1, Guanglian Cheng1, Shuai Cui1, Lipeng Xia2, Fanglu Xu1, Xinzhe Xiong1, Zengfan Shen1, Shuang Zheng1,3, Yuan Yu1, Yi Zou2 and Li Shen1,* |Show fewer author(s)

Author Affiliations

¹Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics and School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China

²School of Information Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China

³e-mail: zshust@hust.edu.cn

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Zhiwei Yan, Qiyuan Yi, Qiyuan Li, Guanglian Cheng, Shuai Cui, Lipeng Xia, Fanglu Xu, Xinzhe Xiong, Zengfan Shen, Shuang Zheng, Yuan Yu, Yi Zou, Li Shen, "Broadband continuous-wave mid-infrared wavelength conversion in high-Q silicon microring resonators," Photonics Res. 12, 2257 (2024)

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