Semiconductor Optoelectronics, Volume. 46, Issue 4, 712(2025)
On-chip Optical True Time Delay Lines Based on Subwavelength Grating Waveguides for Microwave Photonics
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WANG Yue, LI Chang, SONG Shuchao, LI Rui, QIU Shuang. On-chip Optical True Time Delay Lines Based on Subwavelength Grating Waveguides for Microwave Photonics[J]. Semiconductor Optoelectronics, 2025, 46(4): 712
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Received: Jun. 6, 2025
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Published Online: Sep. 18, 2025
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