Future access network scheme based on a flat optical frequency comb for converged wired and wireless services

Liheng Huang1, Ziqi Zhong1, Shibao Wu1

  • 1Key Laboratory of Specialty Fiber Optics and Optical Access Networks, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China.

Applied Optics
|November 10, 2026
PubMed

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