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Nanophotonic waveguides with sub-wavelength mode confinement and engineered dispersion profiles are an excellent platform for application-tailored nonlinear optical interactions at low pulse energies. Here, we present fully air clad suspended-silicon waveguides for infrared frequency comb generation with optical bandwidth limited only by the silicon transparency. The achieved spectra are lithographically tailored to span 2.1 octaves in the mid-infrared (2.0-8.5 um or 1170--5000 cm-1) when pumped at 3.10 um with 100 pJ pulses. Novel fork-shaped couplers provide efficient input coupling with only 1.5 dB loss. The coherence, brightness, and the stability of the generated light are highlighted in a dual frequency comb setup in which individual comb-lines are resolved with 30 dB extinction ratio and 100 MHz spacing in the wavelength range of 4.8-8.5 um (2100-1170 cm-1). These sources are used for broadband gas- and liquid-phase dual-comb spectroscopy with 100 MHz comb-line resolution. We achieve a peak spectral signal-to-noise ratio of 10 Hz^0.5 across a simultaneous bandwidth containing 112,200 comb-lines. These results provide a pathway to further integration with the developing high repetition rate frequency comb lasers for compact sensors with applications in chip-based chemical analysis and spectroscopy.
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