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Vol. 6, Issue 5, B1 (2018)

All-optical switching in silicon photonic waveguides with an epsilon-near-zero resonant cavity [Invited]

Andres D. Neira, Gregory A. Wurtz^*, and Anatoly V. Zayats

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Department of Physics, King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK

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Andres D. Neira, Gregory A. Wurtz, Anatoly V. Zayats. All-optical switching in silicon photonic waveguides with an epsilon-near-zero resonant cavity [Invited][J]. Photonics Research, 2018, 6(5): B1 Copy Citation Text

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