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ABOUT THE STUDY

JOURNAL: Nature Photonics

TITLE: "Massively scalable Kerr comb-driven silicon photonic link"

AUTHORS: Anthony Rizzo (formerly Columbia University, currently Air Force Research Laboratory), Asher Novick (Columbia University), Vignesh Gopal (Columbia University), Bok Young Kim (Columbia University), Xingchen Ji (Formerly Columbia University, Currently Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Stuart Daudlin (Columbia University), Yoshitomo Okawachi (formerly Columbia University, currently Xscape Photonics), Qixiang Cheng (Formerly Columbia University, Currently University of Cambridge), Michal Lipson (Columbia University), Alexander Gaeta (Columbia University), and Keren Bergman (Columbia University)

FUNDING: This work was supported in part by the U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency—Energy under ENLITENED Grant DE-AR000843 and in part by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency under PIPES Grant HR00111920014. This work was performed in part at the Cornell NanoScale Facility, a member of the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI), which is supported by the National Science Foundation (Grant NNCI-2025233).

The authors declare no financial or other conflicts of interest.