• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 19, Issue 6, 060006 (2021)
Renyou Ge1, Hao Li1, Ya Han1, Lifeng Chen1, Jian Xu2, Meiyan Wu3, Yongqing Li4, Yannong Luo5、*, and Xinlun Cai1
Author Affiliations
  • 1State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Electronics and Information Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
  • 2School of Economics and Commerce, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China
  • 3Laboratory of Biomedical Photonics & Engineering, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning 530021, China
  • 4Department of Physics, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina 27858-4353, USA
  • 5Life Science Institute and Laboratory of Biomedical Photonics & Engineering, Guangxi Medical University, Nanning 530021, China
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    Renyou Ge, Hao Li, Ya Han, Lifeng Chen, Jian Xu, Meiyan Wu, Yongqing Li, Yannong Luo, Xinlun Cai. Polarization diversity two-dimensional grating coupler on x-cut lithium niobate on insulator[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2021, 19(6): 060006 Copy Citation Text show less
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