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Photonics Research
Vol. 9, Issue 1, 43 (2021)

On-chip reconfigurable mode converter based on cross-connected subwavelength Y-junctions

Longhui Lu¹, Deming Liu¹, Max Yan², and Minming Zhang^1、3、*

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¹School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China

²Department of Applied Physics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm 11419, Sweden

³Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Wuhan 430074, China

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