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Photonics Research, Volume. 10, Issue 11, 2575(2022)

Digitally tunable optical delay line based on thin-film lithium niobate featuring high switching speed and low optical loss

Wei Ke1, Yanmei Lin1, Mingbo He1, Mengyue Xu1, Jiaxiang Zhang2, Zhongjin Lin3,4、*, Siyuan Yu1, and Xinlun Cai1,5、*
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  • 1State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Electronics and Information Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
  • 2State Key Laboratory of Functional Materials for Informatics, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200092, China
  • 3Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada
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    Paper Information

    Category: Integrated Optics

    Received: Jul. 26, 2022

    Accepted: Sep. 14, 2022

    Published Online: Oct. 28, 2022

    The Author Email: Zhongjin Lin (zlin23@ece.ubc.ca), Xinlun Cai (caixlun5@mail.sysu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1364/PRJ.471534

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