Four-channel CWDM device on a thin-film lithium niobate platform using an angled multimode interferometer structure

Gengxin Chen; Ziliang Ruan; Zong Wang; Pucheng Huang; Changjian Guo; Daoxin Dai; Kaixuan Chen; Liu Liu

doi:10.1364/PRJ.438816

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