5.5%-Δ-PLC/Silicon Photonics Hybrid Wavelength MUX/DEMUX-and-Switch Device

We propose a novel hybrid integration scheme by demonstrating a polarization-insensitive low-crosstalk 8 × 8 silicon photonics switch butt-jointed with a compact extremely-high-Δ SiO
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