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Photonics Research
Vol. 5, Issue 4, 335 (2017)

Numerical investigations of an optical switch based on silicon stripe waveguide embedded with vanadium dioxide layers

Lei Chen, Han Ye, Yumin Liu^*, Dong Wu, Rui Ma, and Zhongyuan Yu

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State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China

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