Tapered mode multiplexers for single mode to multi mode fibre mode transitions
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Yerolatsitis, S.; Gris-Sanchez, I.; Birks, T. A.
- Source
- 2015 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC) Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2015. :1-3 Mar, 2015
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Photonics and Electrooptics
Multiplexing
Optical fiber communication
Optical fiber couplers
Optical fiber devices
Optical switches
Photonics
- Language
Three-mode multiplexers were made by post-processing existing SMF-28 fibres. The input was three identical SMFs which were fused together and adiabatically tapered to form a multimode output core. The light was converted to the LP 01 and two LP 11 with low loss (0.6–0.7 dB). The mode multiplexers were broadband.