• DocumentCode
    3701243
  • 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
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • 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"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341940
  • Filename
    7341940