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A 1×128 optical power splitter is fabricated by integrating 127 Y-branch waveguide elements on a 3 inch silicon wafer using silica waveguide technology. The average measured excess loss of this splitter is 3.2 dB including fibre-waveguide coupling loss.
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Takahashi et al. (1991) studied this question.
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