Integrated thin film lithium niobate Fabry–Perot modulator [Invited]

Mengyue Xu; Mingbo He; Yuntao Zhu; Lin Liu; Lifeng Chen; Siyuan Yu; Xinlun Cai

doi:10.3788/COL202119.060003

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