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Photonics Research, Volume. 11, Issue 5, 682(2023)

Highly reconfigurable silicon integrated microwave photonic filter towards next-generation wireless communication

Zihan Tao1、†, Yuansheng Tao1、†, Ming Jin1, Jun Qin2, Ruixuan Chen1, Bitao Shen1, Yichen Wu1, Haowen Shu1,6、*, Shaohua Yu1,3, and Xingjun Wang1,3,4,5,7、*
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  • 1State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communications System and Networks, School of Electronics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
  • 2Key Laboratory of Information and Communication Systems, Ministry of Information Industry, Beijing Information Science and Technology University, Beijing 100192, China
  • 3Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen 518055, China
  • 4Frontiers Science Center for Nano-optoelectronics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
  • 5Peking University Yangtze Delta Institute of Optoelectronics, Nantong 226010, China
  • 6e-mail: haowenshu@pku.edu.cn
  • 7e-mail: xjwang@pku.edu.cn
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    Zihan Tao, Yuansheng Tao, Ming Jin, Jun Qin, Ruixuan Chen, Bitao Shen, Yichen Wu, Haowen Shu, Shaohua Yu, Xingjun Wang, "Highly reconfigurable silicon integrated microwave photonic filter towards next-generation wireless communication," Photonics Res. 11, 682 (2023)

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    Category: Silicon Photonics

    Received: Sep. 26, 2022

    Accepted: Jan. 29, 2023

    Published Online: Mar. 24, 2023

    The Author Email: Haowen Shu (haowenshu@pku.edu.cn), Xingjun Wang (xjwang@pku.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1364/PRJ.476466

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