High-Contrast Grating Structure Design for Liquid Crystal Tunable Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers

Zhou Zheng; Yonggang Zou; Linlin Shi; Junyu Fang; Haizhu Wang; Jie Fan; Chao Cui; Li Xu; Xiaohui Ma

doi:10.3788/LOP57.011402

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