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Table 3 Electric field (Ey) distribution (2D surface plot) and Electric field strength (1D line plot) of symmetric and antisymmetric TE modes at different widths (ds) of the structure of 2-Ge strips between two adjacent silicon waveguides with geometrical parameters w = 1.5 µm, h = 0.6 µm, and d = 0.5 µm.