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
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