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Acta Optica Sinica
Vol. 45, Issue 7, 0713002 (2025)

Design of Silicon Hybrid Multiplexer/Demultiplexer Based on Deep Neural Network

Lin Zhang, Longqin Xie, Zihan Xiang, Zhongmao Cai..., Yatai Gao and Weifeng Jiang^*|Show fewer author(s)

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School of Automation, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Jiangsu 210044, Nanjing , China

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Lin Zhang, Longqin Xie, Zihan Xiang, Zhongmao Cai, Yatai Gao, Weifeng Jiang. Design of Silicon Hybrid Multiplexer/Demultiplexer Based on Deep Neural Network[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2025, 45(7): 0713002 Copy Citation Text

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Lin Zhang, Longqin Xie, Zihan Xiang, Zhongmao Cai, Yatai Gao, Weifeng Jiang. Design of Silicon Hybrid Multiplexer/Demultiplexer Based on Deep Neural Network[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2025, 45(7): 0713002

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