• DocumentCode
    1957308
  • Title

    Adiabatically expanded single-mode optical fibers for reduced optical power density and enhanced reliability

  • Author

    Murphy, Dominic F. ; Healy, Noel ; O´Mahoney, Kieran T. ; Hussey, Conleth D.

  • Author_Institution
    Opt. Res. Group, Waterford Inst. of Technol., Waterford, Ireland
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    4-8 March 2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    Mode-field areas of standard and specialty single-mode fibers have been adiabatically expanded more than 14-fold from 85 μm2 to 1195 μm2 with <; 0.1 dB loss using the technique of reverse tapering to reduce potential failure mechanisms.
  • Keywords
    optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical fibre losses; telecommunication network reliability; adiabatic expansion; enhanced reliability; mode-field areas; reduced optical power density; reverse tapering; single-mode optical fibers; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber networks;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2012 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
  • Conference_Location
    Los Angeles, CA
  • ISSN
    pending
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-0262-3
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6191999
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1957308