• DocumentCode
    1082611
  • Title

    All-fibre wideband polarisation beam-combiner

  • Author

    Azami, N. ; Villeneuve, A. ; Gonthier, F.

  • Author_Institution
    ITF Opt. Technol. Inc.R&D, Saint-Laurent, Que., Canada
  • Volume
    40
  • Issue
    17
  • fYear
    2004
  • Firstpage
    1043
  • Lastpage
    1044
  • Abstract
    An all-fibre polarisation beam-combiner with more than 200 nm spectral width for -15 dB extinction ratio is demonstrated. The design is based on a narrowband polarisation beam-combiner coupler in association with a WDM coupler in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer structure.
  • Keywords
    Mach-Zehnder interferometers; optical fibre couplers; optical fibre polarisation; wavelength division multiplexing; Mach-Zehnder interferometer arms; Mach-Zehnder interferometer structure; WDM coupler; all fibre wideband polarisation beam combiner; narrowband polarisation beam-combiner coupler; pi phase; spectral dependence transmittivity; wavelength division multiplexing coupler;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:20045592
  • Filename
    1327512