“…In 2022, Yu Zheng, Yunming Li, Yixiong Yan, Pan Zhang, and Ji'an Duan, presented a proposal for an ultra-compact echelle grating (EG) demultiplexer in the O-band. This demultiplexer is specifically designed for use in Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing (CWDM) systems [6]. In 2023, Han Wang, Takeshi Fujisawa, Takanori Sato, Takayoshi Mori, Taiji Sakamoto, Yoko Yamashita, Ryota Imada, Kazuhide Nakajima, and Kunimasa Saitoh, proposed a photonic lantern mode multiplexer, which boasts 6 and 10 modes.…”