Organic electro-optic polymer materials and organic-based hybrid electro-optic modulators

Yan Wang; Tongtong Liu; Jiangyi Liu; Chuanbo Li; Zhuo Chen; Shuhui Bo

doi:10.1088/1674-4926/43/10/101301

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