Spectral line-by-line pulse shaping of on-chip microresonator frequency combs

Nature Photonics

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 770-776

  Ferdous, Fahmida ^a   Miao, Houxun ^b,c   Leaird, Daniel E ^a   Srinivasan, Kartik ^b   Wang, Jian ^a   Chen, Lei ^b   Varghese, Leo Tom ^a   Weiner, Andrew M ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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EID: 82455175174     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2011.255     Document Type: Article

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