DocumentCode
733732
Title
Splicing tapered inhibited-coupling hypocycloid-core Kagome fiber to SMF fibers
Author
Zheng, X.M. ; Debord, B. ; Alharbi, M. ; Vincetti, L. ; Gerome, F. ; Benabid, F.
Author_Institution
GPPMM Group, Univ. of Limoges, Limoges, France
fYear
2015
fDate
10-15 May 2015
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
2
Abstract
We report on tapered inhibited coupling Kagome-fiber with a down-ratio as large as 2.4 while maintaining the hypocycloid-core shape. The insertion-loss of SMF spliced to tapered Kagome-fiber was measured with minimum of 0.48dB at 1550nm.
Keywords
optical fibre fabrication; optical fibre losses; optical fibre testing; SMF fibers; hypocycloid-core shape; insertion-loss; tapered inhibited-coupling hypocycloid-core Kagome fiber splicing; wavelength 1550 nm; Couplings; Integrated circuits; Loss measurement; Optical fiber networks; Optimized production technology; Propagation losses; Splicing;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
Conference_Location
San Jose, CA
Type
conf
Filename
7184174
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