Low Cost High Quality Plastic Fiber Couplers

Jisen Xu; Richard D. Driver; William F. Gasko

doi:10.1117/12.959735

23 February 1989 Low Cost High Quality Plastic Fiber Couplers

Jisen Xu, Richard D. Driver, William F. Gasko

Proceedings Volume 0988, Components for Fiber Optic Applications III and Coherent Lightwave Communications; (1989) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.959735
Event: O-E/Fiber LASE '88, 1988, Boston, MA, United States

Abstract

A fabrication technique for manufacturing fiber directional couplers using plastic optical fiber has been developed. The coupler is manufactured by direct bonding of the uncladded segments of the fibers which enables accurate control of the desired coupling ratio and excess loss. Typical 2x2 couplers have an excess loss less of 0.6dB and 6x6 star couplers had an excess loss less than 2dB. The performance of the devices are found to be relatively stable with temperature over the range of -15 to +65 degree centigrade.

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Jisen Xu, Richard D. Driver, and William F. Gasko "Low Cost High Quality Plastic Fiber Couplers", Proc. SPIE 0988, Components for Fiber Optic Applications III and Coherent Lightwave Communications, (23 February 1989); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.959735

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