Reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexers for hybrid mode-/wavelength-division-multiplexing systems

Xiaolin Yi; Weike Zhao; Chenlei Li; Long Zhang; Yuluan Xiang; Chaoyue Liu; Yaocheng Shi; Liu Liu; Daoxin Dai

doi:10.1117/1.APN.2.6.066004

Advanced Photonics Nexus, Volume. 2, Issue 6, 066004(2023)

Reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexers for hybrid mode-/wavelength-division-multiplexing systems

Xiaolin Yi¹, Weike Zhao¹, Chenlei Li¹, Long Zhang¹, Yuluan Xiang¹, Chaoyue Liu¹, Yaocheng Shi^1,2, Liu Liu^1,2, and Daoxin Dai^1,2,3、*

Author Affiliations

¹Zhejiang University, College of Optical Science and Engineering, Center for Optical and Electromagnetic Research, International Research Center for Advanced Photonics, State Key Laboratory for Modern Optical Instrumentation, Hangzhou, China

²Zhejiang University, Ningbo Research Institute, Ningbo, China

³Zhejiang University, Jiaxing Research Institute, Intelligent Optics and Photonics Research Center, Jiaxing Key Laboratory of Photonic Sensing and Intelligent Imaging, Jiaxing, China

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Paper Information

Category: Research Articles

Received: Jul. 18, 2023

Accepted: Oct. 8, 2023

Published Online: Nov. 13, 2023

The Author Email: Daoxin Dai (dxdai@zju.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1117/1.APN.2.6.066004

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