Title :
Study of fusion splice for single-mode multicore fiber
Author :
Watanabe, Kengo ; Saito, Tsunetoshi ; Imamura, Katsunori ; Nakayama, Yoshihide ; Shiino, Masato
Author_Institution :
FITEL Photonics Lab., Furukawa Electr. Co., Ltd., Chiba, Japan
fDate :
Oct. 30 2011-Nov. 2 2011
Abstract :
We studied the fusion splice for multicore fiber (MCF), with seven cores arranged in a hexagonal array. The passive alignment based on the side observation of MCFs demonstrated the equivalent splice loss value compared to the active alignment. It is shown that cleave angle may affect fusion splice loss.
Keywords :
optical fibre fabrication; optical fibre losses; splicing; active alignment; cleave angle; equivalent splice loss; fusion splice; hexagonal array; single mode multicore fiber; Atmospheric measurements; Multicore processing; Optical fiber networks; Particle measurements; Q measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Microopics Conference (MOC), 2011 17th
Conference_Location :
Sendai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1344-6
