Silicon nonlinear switch as a conditional circulator for monostatic LiDAR systems

Mingfei Ding; Yiwei Xie; Hao Yan; Abu Naim R. Ahmed; Reza Safian; Swapnajit Chakravarty; Leimeng Zhuang; Pengcheng Jiao; Huan Li; Liu Liu; Daoxin Dai

doi:10.1364/PRJ.444480

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