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

Mulong Liu; Leiran Wang; Qibing Sun; Siqi Li; Zhiqiang Ge; Zhizhou Lu; Weiqiang Wang; Guoxi Wang; Wenfu Zhang; Xiaohong Hu; Wei Zhao

doi:doi:10.1364/PRJ.6.000238

Photonics Research, 2018, 6 (4): 04000238, Published Online: Mar. 22, 2019

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Mulong Liu ^1,2Leiran Wang ^1,2,*Qibing Sun ¹Siqi Li ^1,2Zhiqiang Ge ^1,2Zhizhou Lu ^1,2Weiqiang Wang ^1,2Guoxi Wang ^1,2Wenfu Zhang ^1,2,3Xiaohong Hu ¹Wei Zhao ^1,2

Author Affiliations

¹ State 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

² University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

³ e-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[J]. Photonics Research, 2018, 6(4): 04000238.

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