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Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 44, Issue 15, 1513025(2024)

Research Progress in Integrated Topological Photonic Devices for On-Chip Information Processing (Invited)

Pan Hu, Lu Sun^*, Hongwei Wang, Yong Zhang, and Yikai Su^**

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State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

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Category: Integrated Optics

Received: Apr. 16, 2024

Accepted: May. 20, 2024

Published Online: Aug. 5, 2024

The Author Email: Sun Lu (sunlu@sjtu.edu.cn), Su Yikai (yikaisu@sjtu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.3788/AOS240854

CSTR:32393.14.AOS240854

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