Reconfigurable multichannel amplitude equalizer based on cascaded silicon photonic microrings

Changping Zhang; Shujun Liu; Hao Yan; Dajian Liu; Long Zhang; Huan Li; Yaocheng Shi; Liu Liu; Daoxin Dai

doi:10.1364/PRJ.483948

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