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Achieving small process tolerant wavelength-flattened 3 dB directional couplers in Silica-on-Silicon

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Abstract

We show that the unbalanced Mach-Zehnder coupler has similar wavelength flatness and better process tolerance than the uniform asymmetric coupler. When scaled to the size as the uniform asymmetric coupler it maintains better tolerance.

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