Terahertz topological photonic waveguide switch for on-chip communication

Xudong Liu; Jialiang Huang; Hao Chen; Zhengfang Qian; Jingwen Ma; Xiankai Sun; Shuting Fan; Yiwen Sun

doi:10.1364/PRJ.451344

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