Six mode selective fiber optic spatial multiplexer

    Authors

    A. M. Velazquez-Benitez; J. C. Alvarado; G. Lopez-Galmiche; J. E. Antonio-Lopez; J. Hernandez-Cordero; J. Sanchez-Mondragon; P. Sillard; C. M. Okonkwo;R. Amezcua-Correa

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Opt. Lett.

    Keywords

    PHOTONIC LANTERNS; MULTIMODE; Optics

    Abstract

    Low-loss all-fiber photonic lantern (PL) mode multiplexers (MUXs) capable of selectively exciting the first six fiber modes of a multimode fiber (LP01, LP11a, LP11b, LP21a, LP21b, and LP02) are demonstrated. Fabrication of the spatial mode multiplexers was successfully achieved employing a combination of either six step or six graded index fibers of four different core sizes. Insertion losses of 0.2-0.3 dB and mode purities above 9 dB are achieved. Moreover, it is demonstrated that the use of graded index fibers in a PL eases the length requirements of the adiabatic tapered transition and could enable scaling to large numbers. (C) 2015 Optical Society of America

    Journal Title

    Optics Letters

    Volume

    40

    Issue/Number

    8

    Publication Date

    1-1-2015

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    1663

    Last Page

    1666

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000353920100012

    ISSN

    0146-9592

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