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Photonics Research
Vol. 8, Issue 4, 468 (2020)

CMOS-compatible all-optical modulator based on the saturable absorption of graphene

Hong Wang¹, Ningning Yang¹, Limin Chang², Chaobiao Zhou¹, Shiyu Li¹, Meng Deng¹, Zhenwei Li¹, Qiang Liu¹, Chi Zhang^1、3, Zhiyong Li^2、4, and Yi Wang^1、*

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¹Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China

²Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100038, China

³e-mail: chizheung@hust.edu.cn

⁴e-mail: lizhy@semi.ac.cn

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Hong Wang, Ningning Yang, Limin Chang, Chaobiao Zhou, Shiyu Li, Meng Deng, Zhenwei Li, Qiang Liu, Chi Zhang, Zhiyong Li, Yi Wang. CMOS-compatible all-optical modulator based on the saturable absorption of graphene[J]. Photonics Research, 2020, 8(4): 468 Copy Citation Text

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