Free-space coupling optics for multicore fibers

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 1902-1905

  Klaus, Werner ^a   Sakaguchi, Jun ^a   Puttnam, Benjamin J ^a   Awaji, Yoshinari ^a   Wada, Naoya ^a   Kobayashi, Tetsuya ^b   Watanabe, Masayuki ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b OPTOQUEST CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Beam optics; coupling loss; fiber optics; multicore fiber; optical coupling; space division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

BEAM OPTICS; COUPLING LOSS; MULTICORE FIBER; OPTICAL COUPLINGS; SPACE DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

FIBER OPTICS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; OPTICS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; SPACE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

FIBERS;

EID: 84867864327     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2012.2217490     Document Type: Article

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