Fully Integrated Stokes Vector Receiver for 400 Gbit/s

We propose and demonstrate a new photonic integrated circuit (PIC) design for Stokes vector reception. Its accuracy is 2.5° across the entire Poincaré sphere and almost than the entire C-band.

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