Abstract
We report about design, fabrication, and test of a cascadable planar-integrated freespace optical fan-out module that can be used in an optical cross-connect switch for short-haul interconnects. For a 1x4 fan-out a coupling efficiency of -11.4 dB per channel was obtained.
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