On-chip digitally tunable positive/negative dispersion controller using bidirectional chirped multimode waveguide gratings

Shujun Liu; Ruitao Ma; Zejie Yu; Yaocheng Shi; Daoxin Dai

doi:10.1117/1.AP.5.6.066005

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