Adiabatic mode multiplexers
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Birks, T A; Yerolatsitis, S; Harrington, K
- Source
- 2017 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC) Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2017. :1-3 Mar, 2017
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Photonics and Electrooptics
- Language
We describe mode multiplexers that rely on adiabatic propagation along optical fibre structures (photonic lanterns) that change gradually along their lengths. Spatially-separated single-mode waves evolve adiabatically into individual pure modes occupying a common multimode core.