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Photonics Research, Volume. 6, Issue 6, 574(2018)

Ultra-compact broadband polarization beam splitter with strong expansibility

Jie Huang¹, Junbo Yang^1,2、*, Dingbo Chen¹, Xin He¹, Yunxin Han¹, Jingjing Zhang¹, and Zhaojian Zhang¹

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¹Center of Material Science, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China

²China State Key Laboratory on Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

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Category: Integrated Optics

Received: Dec. 18, 2017

Accepted: Apr. 2, 2018

Published Online: Jul. 2, 2018

The Author Email: Junbo Yang (yangjunbo008@sohu.com)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.6.000574

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