Fused fiber couplers with asymmetric heating by arc discharge

Author

Ray, Biplab K. ; Das, Avranil ; Das, Alok K.

Author_Institution

Guru Nanak Inst. of Technol., Kolkata, India

fYear

2010

fDate

6-8 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The refractive index variation with the change of glass structure depending on the temperature profile parameters using arc discharge is utilized to fabricate optical devices. The unequal heating in 2×2 couplers by placing the coupler waist away from the arc flame produces phase mismatch between the fibers. A theoretical model for splitting ratio versus wavelength with repeated discharges to increase the phase mismatch considering temperature profile parameters is developed. The theoretical curves are compared with the experimental results of 3 dB couplers and wavelength insensitive devices.

Keywords

arcs (electric); discharges (electric); optical fabrication; optical fibre couplers; refractive index; arc discharge; asymmetric heating; fused fiber couplers; refractive index variation; temperature profile parameters; Couplers; Couplings; Heating; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber devices; Strontium; 2×2 fused fiber couplers; 3 dB coupler; refractive index change by unequal heating; wavelength insensitive devices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless And Optical Communications Networks (WOCN), 2010 Seventh International Conference On

Conference_Location

Colombo

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7203-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WOCN.2010.5587347

Filename

5587347