Compact and low-loss manner of waveguide grating router passband flattening and demonstration in a 64-channel blocker/multiplexer

We present a compact design for flattening the passband of a waveguide grating router theoretically without excess loss or chromatic dispersion. We demonstrate its use in a 64-wavelength-channel blocker/multiplexer.

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