Optimal Design of 850 nm 2&#215;2 Multimode Interference Polymer Waveguide Coupler by Imprint Technique

Yuchen SHAO; Xiuyou HAN; Xiaonan HAN; Zhili LU; Zhenlin WU; Jie TENG; Jinyan WANG; Geert MORTHIER; Mingshan ZHAO

doi:10.1007/s13320-016-0341-9

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