Low-loss coupling between two single-mode optical fibers with different mode-field diameters using a graded-index multimode optical fiber

Optics Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 3596-3598

  Mafi, Arash ^a   Hofmann, Peter ^b,c   Salvin, Clémence Jollivet ^b   Schülzgen, Axel ^b  

^a University of Wisconsin Milwaukee   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM EXPANDERS; FIBER-RING LASERS; GRADED INDEX; GRADED-INDEX FIBERS; INTERFERENCE EFFECTS; LOW LOSS; MODE FIELD DIAMETER; MULTI-MODE INTERFERENCE; MULTIMODE OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION LINK; SINGLE-MODE OPTICAL FIBER;

FIBERS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MULTIMODE FIBERS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; RING LASERS;

OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING;

EID: 80052935797     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.36.003596     Document Type: Article

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