Temperature-compensated, polarization-independent biconical tapered fused couplers for dense wavelength-division-multiplexers

Author

Chen, P. ; Chi-Hung Huang ; Xueshi Lin

Author_Institution

Appl. Fiber Opt. Inc., Fremont, CA, USA

fYear

1998

fDate

22-27 Feb. 1998

Firstpage

335

Lastpage

336

Abstract

Summary form only given. A biconical tapered fused (BTF) fiber technique has been used to fabricate a variety of low-loss passive optical fiber devices, such as wideband couplers, and wavelength-division multiplexers (WDM). We demonstrated a temperature-compensation technique to greatly reduce the temperature-induced wavelength drift of biconical tapered fused DWDM by a factor of 5.

Keywords

compensation; multiplexing equipment; optical communication equipment; optical fibre couplers; optical fibre fabrication; optical fibre losses; optical fibre polarisation; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM; biconical tapered fused DWDM; biconical tapered fused fiber technique; dense wavelength-division-multiplexers; low-loss passive optical fiber device fabrication; temperature-compensated polarization-independent biconical tapered fused couplers; temperature-compensation technique; temperature-induced wavelength drift; wavelength-division multiplexers; wideband couplers; Capacitive sensors; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Optical refraction; Optical variables control; Page description languages; Temperature; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, 1998. OFC '98., Technical Digest

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-521-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.1998.657450

Filename

657450