• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 11, Issue 2, 189 (2023)
Rongxiang Guo1,2, Shujiao Zhang1,2, Haoran Gao1,2, Ganapathy Senthil Murugan3..., Tiegen Liu1,2 and Zhenzhou Cheng1,2,4,5,*|Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1School of Precision Instruments and Optoelectronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
  • 2Key Laboratory of Optoelectronics Information Technology, Ministry of Education, Tianjin 300072, China
  • 3Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
  • 4Georgia Tech-Shenzhen Institute, Tianjin University, Shenzhen 518055, China
  • 5Department of Chemistry, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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    Rongxiang Guo, Shujiao Zhang, Haoran Gao, Ganapathy Senthil Murugan, Tiegen Liu, Zhenzhou Cheng, "Blazed subwavelength grating coupler," Photonics Res. 11, 189 (2023) Copy Citation Text show less
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    Rongxiang Guo, Shujiao Zhang, Haoran Gao, Ganapathy Senthil Murugan, Tiegen Liu, Zhenzhou Cheng, "Blazed subwavelength grating coupler," Photonics Res. 11, 189 (2023)
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