Design, Fabrication and Demonstration of a 1x20 Multimode Interference Splitter for Parallel Biosensing Applications

This paper presents the experimental achievement of a silicon-on-insulator 1x20 MMI splitter andsimulation evaluations of the TE-like and TM-like mode MMI splitters for parallel biosensing applications. Device fabrication technology and optical characterisation results are provided.

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