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Photonics Research, Volume. 6, Issue 4, 238(2018)

Influences of multiphoton absorption and free-carrier effects on frequency-comb generation in normal dispersion silicon microresonators

Mulong Liu1,2, Leiran Wang1,2、*, Qibing Sun1, Siqi Li1,2, Zhiqiang Ge1,2, Zhizhou Lu1,2, Weiqiang Wang1,2, Guoxi Wang1,2, Wenfu Zhang1,2,3, Xiaohong Hu1, and Wei Zhao1,2
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  • 1State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics (XIOPM), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Xi’an 710119, China
  • 2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • 3e-mail: wfuzhang@opt.ac.cn
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    Mulong Liu, Leiran Wang, Qibing Sun, Siqi Li, Zhiqiang Ge, Zhizhou Lu, Weiqiang Wang, Guoxi Wang, Wenfu Zhang, Xiaohong Hu, Wei Zhao, "Influences of multiphoton absorption and free-carrier effects on frequency-comb generation in normal dispersion silicon microresonators," Photonics Res. 6, 238 (2018)

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    Category: Nonlinear Optics

    Received: Nov. 27, 2017

    Accepted: Jan. 20, 2018

    Published Online: Mar. 22, 2019

    The Author Email: Leiran Wang (lionking@opt.ac.cn)

    DOI:10.1364/PRJ.6.000238

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