Joel R. Salazar-Gil

TL;DR: A 3x1 fiber-based photonic lantern spatial-multiplexer with mode-selectivity greater than 6 dB and transmission loss of less than 0.3 dB is demonstrated, which are to the authors' knowledge the lowest insertion and mode-dependent loss devices.

TL;DR: Transmission experiments in few-mode fibers supporting 6 spatialand polarization modes, where low-loss photonic lanterns are used as mode multiplexers are reported, measuring a transmission distance of 900 km for 32 WDM channels with a 100 GHz channel spacing.

TL;DR: An 11 port count wavelength selective switch supporting spatial superchannels of three spatial modes, based on the combination of photonic lanterns and a high-port count single-mode WSS is demonstrated.

TL;DR: The first realization of a wavelength-selective switch (WSS) with direct integration of few mode fibers (FMF) is fully described and the effect on data transmission of cascaded passband filtering and MDL build-up is experimentally investigated in detail.

TL;DR: Three different devices based on multicore fibre photonic lanterns with 100µm core diameters are demonstrated, one of which is a direct scaleable solution, which eases imprinting of photonic functions, e.g. fibre Bragg gratings for future large-aperture telescopes.