Title :
Temperature-compensated, polarization-independent biconical tapered fused couplers for dense wavelength-division-multiplexers
Author :
Chen, P. ; Chi-Hung Huang ; Xueshi Lin
Author_Institution :
Appl. Fiber Opt. Inc., Fremont, CA, USA
Abstract :
Summary form only given. A biconical tapered fused (BTF) fiber technique has been used to fabricate a variety of low-loss passive optical fiber devices, such as wideband couplers, and wavelength-division multiplexers (WDM). We demonstrated a temperature-compensation technique to greatly reduce the temperature-induced wavelength drift of biconical tapered fused DWDM by a factor of 5.
Keywords :
compensation; multiplexing equipment; optical communication equipment; optical fibre couplers; optical fibre fabrication; optical fibre losses; optical fibre polarisation; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM; biconical tapered fused DWDM; biconical tapered fused fiber technique; dense wavelength-division-multiplexers; low-loss passive optical fiber device fabrication; temperature-compensated polarization-independent biconical tapered fused couplers; temperature-compensation technique; temperature-induced wavelength drift; wavelength-division multiplexers; wideband couplers; Capacitive sensors; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Optical refraction; Optical variables control; Page description languages; Temperature; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, 1998. OFC '98., Technical Digest
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-521-8
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.1998.657450
