Mode-selective photonic lanterns from multicore fibres
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Yeirolatsitis, S; Harrington, K; Thomson, R R; Birks, T A
- 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
Multicore processing
Photonics
Optical fibers
Multiplexing
Optimized production technology
Adiabatic
Pollution measurement
- Language
We report mode-selective photonic lanterns made from multicore fibres with several dissimilar cores. Six-mode and ten-mode multiplexers are demonstrated. Such designs potentially offer the maximum possible number of multiplexed modes in mode-selective photonic lanterns.