• Frontiers of Optoelectronics
  • Vol. 15, Issue 1, 12200 (2022)
Zihan Tao1, Bo Wang1, Bowen Bai1, Ruixuan Chen1..., Haowen Shu1, Xuguang Zhang1 and Xingjun Wang1,2,3,4,*|Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, School of Electronics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
  • 2Frontier Science Center for Nano-Optoelectronics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
  • 3Peking University Yangtze Delta Institute of Optoelectronics, Nantong 226010, China
  • 4Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen 518055, China
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    Zihan Tao, Bo Wang, Bowen Bai, Ruixuan Chen, Haowen Shu, Xuguang Zhang, Xingjun Wang. An ultra-compact polarization-insensitive slot-strip mode converter[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2022, 15(1): 12200 Copy Citation Text show less
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