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Chinese Journal of Liquid Crystals and Displays, Volume. 40, Issue 3, 400(2025)

Equal power beam splitter based on liquid crystal polymer waveguides

Zhaoyi WANG¹, Hongbo CHENG¹, Honglong HU¹, Conglong YUAN^1,2、*, and Zhigang ZHENG¹

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¹School of Physics， East China University of Science and Technology， Shanghai 200237， China

²School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering， East China University of Science and Technology， Shanghai 200237， China

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Zhaoyi WANG, Hongbo CHENG, Honglong HU, Conglong YUAN, Zhigang ZHENG. Equal power beam splitter based on liquid crystal polymer waveguides[J]. Chinese Journal of Liquid Crystals and Displays, 2025, 40(3): 400

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Received: Nov. 26, 2024

Accepted: --

Published Online: Apr. 27, 2025

The Author Email: Conglong YUAN (conglongyuan@ecust.edu.cn)

DOI:10.37188/CJLCD.2024-0333

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