Photonics Research, Volume. 10, Issue 3, 786(2022)

Submicrosecond electro-optical switching of one-dimensional soft photonic crystals

Lingling Ma1...2,3, Chaoyi Li2,3, Luyao Sun1, Zhenpeng Song1, Yanqing Lu2,3,4,*, and Bingxiang Li1,25,* |Show fewer author(s)
Author Affiliations
  • 1College of Electronic and Optical Engineering and College of Microelectronics, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210023, China
  • 2National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
  • 3Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures and College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
  • 4e-mail: yqlu@nju.edu.cn
  • 5e-mail: bxli@njupt.edu.cn
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    Category: Optical and Photonic Materials

    Received: Nov. 23, 2021

    Accepted: Jan. 11, 2022

    Published Online: Mar. 1, 2022

    The Author Email: Yanqing Lu (yqlu@nju.edu.cn), Bingxiang Li (bxli@njupt.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1364/PRJ.449284

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