microcomb

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noun

A microscopic comb used as a refraction grating

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Meanings

nounmicrocomb (plural microcombs)

plural microcombs

  1. natural sciencesA microscopic comb used as a refraction grating

    This technique provides new degrees of freedom and enhanced flexibility in engineering the dispersion of microcomb resonators..

    2015, Hojoong Jung, Menno Poot, Hong X. Tang, “In-resonator variation of waveguide cross-sections for dispersion control of aluminum nitride micro-rings”, in arXiv

Origin

From micro- + comb.

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