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Photonics Research, Volume. 11, Issue 8, 1474(2023)

Thermally tunable GeSi electro-absorption modulator with a wide effective operating wavelength range

Yufei Liu1,2, Jialiang Sun1,2, Xinyu Li1,2, Shuxiao Wang1, Wencheng Yue1, Yan Cai1、*, and Mingbin Yu3
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  • 1National Key Laboratory of Materials for Integrated Circuits, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China
  • 2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • 3Shanghai Industrial μTechnology Research Institute, Shanghai 201800, China
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    Yufei Liu, Jialiang Sun, Xinyu Li, Shuxiao Wang, Wencheng Yue, Yan Cai, Mingbin Yu. Thermally tunable GeSi electro-absorption modulator with a wide effective operating wavelength range[J]. Photonics Research, 2023, 11(8): 1474

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    Category: Silicon Photonics

    Received: Feb. 23, 2023

    Accepted: May. 22, 2023

    Published Online: Aug. 2, 2023

    The Author Email: Yan Cai (yan.cai@mail.sim.ac.cn)

    DOI:10.1364/PRJ.488474

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