• DocumentCode
    1378421
  • Title

    Guided-wave directional couplers with polarisation maintaining fibre arrays

  • Author

    Sato, Seiki ; Wada, Hiroyuki ; Hashizume, Hidetoshi ; Kobayashi, S. ; Seki, Morihiro ; Nakama, K.

  • Author_Institution
    Nippon Sheet Glass Co. Ltd., Ibaraki, Japan
  • Volume
    27
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    1991
  • Firstpage
    303
  • Lastpage
    304
  • Abstract
    Guided-wave directional couplers having good polarisation-maintaining characteristics have been made in glass and assembled with polarisation maintaining fibre arrays fabricated by a novel technique using capillaries on a V-grooved substrate. The extinction ratios of the output ports were over 31 dB for waveguide chips and 26 dB for fibre array-assembled devices, respectively.
  • Keywords
    directional couplers; fibre optics; light polarisation; optical couplers; optical workshop techniques; V-grooved substrate; capillaries; directional couplers; glass; polarisation maintaining fibre arrays;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19910191
  • Filename
    86722