Design and Characterization of Traveling-wave Electrodes for InP-based Rectangular Mach-Zehnder High Speed Electro-optic Modulators

ZHAO Li-ya; WANG Le; YANG Yan; LIU Ke

doi:10.3788/gzxb20174605.0523002

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