Ultra-power-efficient heterogeneous III–V/Si MOSCAP (de-)interleavers for DWDM optical links

Stanley Cheung; Geza Kurczveil; Yingtao Hu; Mingye Fu; Yuan Yuan; Di Liang; Raymond G. Beausoleil

doi:10.1364/PRJ.444991

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