Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 19, Issue 6, 060014(2021)

Broadband and lossless lithium niobate valley photonic crystal waveguide [Invited] Editors' Pick

Rui Ge, Xiongshuo Yan, Yuping Chen*, and Xianfeng Chen
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  • State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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    Category: Special Issue on Lithium Niobate Based Photonic Devices

    Received: Apr. 6, 2021

    Accepted: Apr. 30, 2021

    Published Online: Jun. 16, 2021

    The Author Email: Yuping Chen (ypchen@sjtu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/COL202119.060014

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