ACompact polarization splitter based on tapered cascaded multimode interference couplers in slot waveguide structures

WANG Jia-Yuan; XIAO Jin-Biao; SUN Xiao-Han

doi:10.11972/j.issn.1001-9014.2015.05.012

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