Integrated mode-transparent polarization beam splitter supporting thirteen data channels

Chunlei Sun; Yu Yu; Yunhong Ding; Zhen Li; Wei Qi; Xinliang Zhang

doi:10.1364/PRJ.391443

Photonics Research, Volume. 8, Issue 6, 978(2020)

Integrated mode-transparent polarization beam splitter supporting thirteen data channels Editors' Pick

Chunlei Sun¹, Yu Yu^1、*, Yunhong Ding², Zhen Li¹, Wei Qi¹, and Xinliang Zhang¹

¹Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics and School of Optical and Electrical Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China

²Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Building 343, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

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Paper Information

Category: Silicon Photonics

Received: Feb. 26, 2020

Accepted: Apr. 8, 2020

Published Online: Jun. 1, 2020

The Author Email: Yu Yu (yuyu@mail.hust.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.391443

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