Mixing-rod power coupling for large-core polymer optical fibers

Jun Ai; Yao Li

doi:10.1117/1.602145

1 June 1999 Mixing-rod power coupling for large-core polymer optical fibers

Jun Ai, Yao Li

Optical Engineering, Vol. 38, Issue 6, (June 1999). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.602145

Low-cost power splitting and star-coupling using large-core polymer optical fibers (POFs) are studied. Tapered and untapered mixing rods are used to form 1 x 7 and 7 x 7 couplers. Excess loss and coupling uniformity of a 15 cm length tapered mixing-rod based 1 x 7 coupler are measured to be 1.72 dB and 1.0 dB. The average excess loss and uniformity for a 18 cm mixing-rod length 7 x 7 star-coupler are 1.38 dB and 1.91 dB, respectively.

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Jun Ai and Yao Li "Mixing-rod power coupling for large-core polymer optical fibers," Optical Engineering 38(6), (1 June 1999). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.602145

Published: 1 June 1999

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