• 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