Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 19, Issue 6, 060003(2021)

Integrated thin film lithium niobate Fabry–Perot modulator [Invited] Editors' Pick

Mengyue Xu, Mingbo He, Yuntao Zhu, Lin Liu, Lifeng Chen*, Siyuan Yu**, and Xinlun Cai***
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  • State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies and School of Electronics and Information Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510000, China
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    Mengyue Xu, Mingbo He, Yuntao Zhu, Lin Liu, Lifeng Chen, Siyuan Yu, Xinlun Cai, "Integrated thin film lithium niobate Fabry–Perot modulator [Invited]," Chin.Opt.Lett. 19, 060003 (2021)

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    Category: Special Issue on Lithium Niobate Based Photonic Devices

    Received: Dec. 25, 2020

    Accepted: Feb. 2, 2021

    Published Online: Mar. 26, 2021

    The Author Email: Lifeng Chen (chenlf37@mail.sysu.edu.cn), Siyuan Yu (yusy@mail.sysu.edu.cn), Xinlun Cai (caixlun5@mail.sysu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/COL202119.060003

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