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Advanced Photonics Nexus, Volume. 3, Issue 1, 016006(2024)

Ultra-low-loss all-fiber orbital angular momentum mode-division multiplexer based on cascaded fused-biconical mode selective couplers

Huiyi Guo, Yan-ge Liu^*, Liang Chen, Wenzhe Chang, Zekun Shi, Letian Gu, and Zhi Wang

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Nankai University, Institute of Modern Optics, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Micro-scale Optical Information Science and Technology, Tianjin, China

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Paper Information

Category: Research Articles

Received: Oct. 9, 2023

Accepted: Dec. 11, 2023

Published Online: Jan. 4, 2024

The Author Email: Yan-ge Liu (ygliu@nankai.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1117/1.APN.3.1.016006

CSTR:32397.14.1.APN.3.1.016006

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