Title :
Free-space coupling optics for multi-core fibers
Author :
Klaus, Werner ; Sakaguchi, Jun ; Puttnam, Benjamin J. ; Awaji, Yoshinari ; Wada, Naoya ; Kobayashi, Tetsuya ; Watanabe, Masayuki
Author_Institution :
Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Koganei, Japan
Abstract :
We describe the design of low-loss and low-crosstalk free-space coupling optics for multi-core fibers and discuss in detail its experimental evaluation.
Keywords :
optical couplers; optical crosstalk; optical losses; free-space coupling optics; low-crosstalk; low-loss; multicore fibers; Arrays; Couplings; Crosstalk; Multicore processing; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber devices;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series, 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1526-6
DOI :
10.1109/PHOSST.2012.6280811