Fabrication of an optical fiber reflective notch coupler.
A method of fabricating a reflective notch coupler in an optical fiber has been developed. The coupler consists of a 45° microprism that penetrates into the core of a multimode optical fiber. One face, at 90° to the fiber axis, is nonreflective, and one face, at 45° to the fiber axis, is reflective....
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| description | A method of fabricating a reflective notch coupler in an optical fiber has been developed. The coupler consists of a 45° microprism that penetrates into the core of a multimode optical fiber. One face, at 90° to the fiber axis, is nonreflective, and one face, at 45° to the fiber axis, is reflective. Our method of fabricating a notch and selectively mirroring only the 45° face is low-cost, precise, and easily scalable. The coupler allows near-100% coupling of light into an optical fiber from the side, while allowing coupling of any desired fraction of light out from the core at a 90° angle on the opposite side of the fiber. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:02b01fe3-54a7-4c45-aa84-ca019ec7e1082022-03-26T08:42:07ZFabrication of an optical fiber reflective notch coupler.Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:02b01fe3-54a7-4c45-aa84-ca019ec7e108EnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2011Rushworth, CJames, DJones, CVallance, CA method of fabricating a reflective notch coupler in an optical fiber has been developed. The coupler consists of a 45° microprism that penetrates into the core of a multimode optical fiber. One face, at 90° to the fiber axis, is nonreflective, and one face, at 45° to the fiber axis, is reflective. Our method of fabricating a notch and selectively mirroring only the 45° face is low-cost, precise, and easily scalable. The coupler allows near-100% coupling of light into an optical fiber from the side, while allowing coupling of any desired fraction of light out from the core at a 90° angle on the opposite side of the fiber. |
| spellingShingle | Rushworth, C James, D Jones, C Vallance, C Fabrication of an optical fiber reflective notch coupler. |
| title | Fabrication of an optical fiber reflective notch coupler. |
| title_full | Fabrication of an optical fiber reflective notch coupler. |
| title_fullStr | Fabrication of an optical fiber reflective notch coupler. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fabrication of an optical fiber reflective notch coupler. |
| title_short | Fabrication of an optical fiber reflective notch coupler. |
| title_sort | fabrication of an optical fiber reflective notch coupler |
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