• DocumentCode
    1496533
  • Title

    1×N fibre coupler employing diffractive optical element

  • Author

    Pan, J.J. ; Zhu, T.

  • Author_Institution
    E-Tek Dynamics Inc., San Jose, CA, USA
  • Volume
    35
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    1999
  • fDate
    2/18/1999 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    324
  • Lastpage
    325
  • Abstract
    A new broadband 1×N fibre coupler has been developed which employs diffractive optical elements (DOEs). The fibre coupler consists of an input fibre collimator, two aspherical lenses, a specially designed DOE and arrayed output fibres. The demonstrated 1×8 fibre coupler has a low polarisation dependent loss of ⩽0.05 dB an excess loss of ⩽2.4 dB, and good uniformity of ±0.25 dB over a broad wavelength range of 1510-1570 nm
  • Keywords
    aspherical optics; diffractive optical elements; lenses; optical fibre couplers; optical fibre losses; 0.05 dB; 1510 to 1570 nm; 2.4 dB; arrayed output fibres; aspherical lenses; broadband 1×N fibre coupler; diffractive optical element; excess loss; fibre coupler; input fibre collimator; insertion loss; low polarisation dependent loss;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19990254
  • Filename
    756724