Ultrabroadband Polarization Insensitive Hybrid using Multiplane Light Conversion
15 Feb 2020
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Nicolas K. Fontaine,
Yuanhang Zhang,
Haoshuo Chen,
Roland Ryf,
David T. Neilson,
Guifang Li,
Mark Cappuzzo,
Rose Kopf,
Al Tate,
Hugo Safar,
Cristian Bolle,
Mark Earnshaw,
Joel Carpenter·
We designed, fabricated and tested an optical hybrid that supports an octave of bandwidth (900-1800 nm) and below 4-dB insertion loss using multiplane light conversion. Measured phase errors are below 3-degree across a measurement bandwidth of 390 nm.