Automatic Calibration of Optical Beamforming Network Chip Based on Cascaded Anti-Resonant Microring

Hanwei Sun; Liangjun Lu; Minhui Jin; Jiao Liu; Linjie Zhou; Jianping Chen

doi:10.3788/CJL202249.1119001

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