Enhanced optical nonlinearity in a silicon–organic hybrid slot waveguide for all-optical signal processing

Yonghua Wang; Su He; Xiaoyan Gao; Piaopiao Ye; Lei Lei; Wenchan Dong; Xinliang Zhang; Ping Xu

doi:10.1364/PRJ.439251

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