Single-drive high-speed lumped depletion-type modulators toward 10 fJ/bit energy consumption

Xinbai Li; Fenghe Yang; Fang Zhong; Qingzhong Deng; Jurgen Michel; Zhiping Zhou

doi:10.1364/PRJ.5.000134

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