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Strip-loaded waveguide-based optical phase shifter for high-efficiency silicon optical modulators

Yuriko Maegami*... Guangwei Cong, Morifumi Ohno, Makoto Okano and Koji Yamada |Show fewer author(s)

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National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 16-1 Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8569, Japan

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Paper Information

Category: Silicon Photonics

Received: Jul. 12, 2016

Accepted: Sep. 1, 2016

Published Online: Dec. 23, 2016

The Author Email: Yuriko Maegami (yuriko-maegami@aist.go.jp)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.4.000222

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