A passive dual polarization unit and coherent transceiver and/or receiver including one or more passive dual polarization units are provided. An example passive dual polarization unit includes a polarization splitter configured to split an input signal into a TE mode and TM mode signals; TE/TM splitters each designed to split the TE/TM mode signals into first TE/TM signals and second TE/TM signals; a first TE signal polarization rotation component for receiving the first TE signal and providing a third TM signal having the same magnitude and time dependence as the first TE signal; a first TM signal polarization rotation component for receiving the first TM signal and providing a third TE signal having the same magnitude and time dependence as the first TM signal; and TE/TM couplers that couple the second TE/TM signals and the third TE/TM signals to generate output TE/TM signals.