Title :
Six-mode photonic lantern multiplexer made from reduced-cladding fibres
Author :
S. Yerolatsitis;T. A. Birks
Author_Institution :
Dept of Physics, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK
Abstract :
We report a six-mode photonic lantern multiplexer made from six different step-index single-mode fibres. Reduced cladding fibres assist adiabaticity, while retaining cores resembling those of standard SMF. Light in each fibre excites a different output mode. The loss was ~0.4dB.
Keywords :
"Optical fibers","Multiplexing","Photonics","Optimized production technology","Standards","MIMO","Loss measurement"
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341940
