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Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 21, Issue 10, 101302(2023)

Slotless dispersion-flattened waveguides with more than five zero-dispersion wavelengths

Jialang Zhang¹, Siyuan Zhang¹, Junna Yao¹, Xinhua Jiang¹, Anting Wang^1、*, and Qiwen Zhan²

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¹Department of Optics and Optical Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China

²School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China

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Jialang Zhang, Siyuan Zhang, Junna Yao, Xinhua Jiang, Anting Wang, Qiwen Zhan, "Slotless dispersion-flattened waveguides with more than five zero-dispersion wavelengths," Chin. Opt. Lett. 21, 101302 (2023)

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Category: Integrated Optics

Received: Apr. 2, 2023

Accepted: May. 31, 2023

Published Online: Oct. 7, 2023

The Author Email: Anting Wang (atwang@ustc.edu.cn)

DOI:10.3788/COL202321.101302

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