Impact of Lateral Leakage Loss in a Kind of Shallowly-etched Rib Waveguides on SOI with Non-rectangular Cross-section

ZHANG Ming; TAO Jing; ZHOU Han-qing; WANG Chang-hui

doi:10.3788/gzxb20174607.0723003

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