Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 20, Issue 2, 022502(2022)
Monolithic thin film lithium niobate electro-optic modulator with over 110 GHz bandwidth Editors' Pick
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Fan Yang, Xiansong Fang, Xinyu Chen, Lixin Zhu, Fan Zhang, Zhangyuan Chen, Yanping Li, "Monolithic thin film lithium niobate electro-optic modulator with over 110 GHz bandwidth," Chin. Opt. Lett. 20, 022502 (2022)
Category: Optoelectronics
Received: Sep. 11, 2021
Accepted: Nov. 2, 2021
Published Online: Nov. 25, 2021
The Author Email: Yanping Li (liyp@pku.edu.cn)