Biconical-taper single-mode fiber coupler.
Single-mode fiber couplers produced as fused biconical-taper structures are reported on. The devices exhibit low loss (0.5 dB), arbitrary branching ratio, polarization independence, and broadband operation in wavelength.
Kawasaki
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Communications Research Centre, Department of Communications, Ottawa, Ontario K2H 8S2, Canada.
Hill
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Lamont
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