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This paper describes the demonstration of an improved eight-channel coarse wavelength-division multiplexer. The fully packaged channel losses range from 2.3 to 3.9 dB, the 1-dB bandwidth is 16.3 nm, and the crosstalk is <-28dB. This silica-waveguide device could have very low cost.
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