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Vol. 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|Show fewer author(s)

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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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Huiyi Guo, Yan-ge Liu, Liang Chen, Wenzhe Chang, Zekun Shi, Letian Gu, Zhi Wang, "Ultra-low-loss all-fiber orbital angular momentum mode-division multiplexer based on cascaded fused-biconical mode selective couplers," Adv. Photon. Nexus 3, 016006 (2024) Copy Citation Text

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