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[WH2-3]Low Insertion Loss 3D Waveguide-based Fan-in/Fan-out For a 12-Core Fiber

○Atsushi Oshima1, Osamu Shimakawa1, Hajime Arao1, Takeru Naito1, Tetsuya Nakanishi1, Hidehisa Tazawa1 (1.Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.)

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Fiber based devices for space division multiplexing

We fabricated a laser inscription 3D waveguide-based fan-in/fan-out for a 12-core fiber and achieved an insertion loss of less than 0.51 dB over both the O-band and C-band across all 12 cores.