Variable-ratio tap for plastic optical fiber
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Youichi Sakai; Hiroshi Okada; Manabu Kagami
- Source
- Applied optics. 30(6)
- Subject
- All-silica fiber
Materials science
Plastic-clad silica fiber
business.industry
Materials Science (miscellaneous)
Physics::Optics
Polarization-maintaining optical fiber
Graded-index fiber
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Double-clad fiber
Optics
Business and International Management
business
Plastic optical fiber
Hard-clad silica optical fiber
Photonic-crystal fiber
- Language
- ISSN
- 1559-128X
A variable-ratio tap is developed by changing the bending radius of a plastic optical fiber. When a plastic fiber is bent over a small radius, the core modes of the fiber are converted into the cladding modes, which can be extracted through material having a suitable refractive index. The transmission characteristics of the variable-ratio tap are investigated using the ray tracing technique governing the quasiskew rays propagating through a multimode fiber.