Chip-scale nonlinear bandwidth enhancement via birefringent mode hybridization

Tingge Yuan; Jiangwei Wu; Xueyi Wang; Chengyu Chen; Hao Li; Bo Wang; Yuping Chen; Xianfeng Chen

doi:10.1117/1.AP.6.5.056012

Advanced Photonics, Volume. 6, Issue 5, 056012(2024)

Chip-scale nonlinear bandwidth enhancement via birefringent mode hybridization

Tingge Yuan^1、†, Jiangwei Wu¹, Xueyi Wang¹, Chengyu Chen¹, Hao Li¹, Bo Wang¹, Yuping Chen^1、*, and Xianfeng Chen^1,2

¹Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Physics and Astronomy, State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Shanghai, China

²Shandong Normal University, Collaborative Innovation Center of Light Manipulations and Applications, Jinan, China

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