Progress and Challenge of 3D Photonic Integrated Circuit（Invited）

Yuexin YIN; Xinru XU; Yingzhi DING; Mengke YAO; Guoyan ZENG; Daming ZHANG

doi:10.3788/gzxb20225107.0751416

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