Title :
Design and measurement of POF active couplers
Author :
J. Zubia;U. Irusta;A. Aguirre;J. Arrue
Author_Institution :
Univ. of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain
Abstract :
An active coupler based on the switching properties of liquid crystals has been designed for plastic optical fibers (POF). The power coupled can be varied as a function of a low amplitude voltage. We have obtained a dynamic range better than 4 dB and a good reliability with temperature.
Keywords :
"Optical fiber couplers","Optical fibers","Liquid crystals","Optical fiber devices","Refractive index","Plastics","Computer simulation","Computational modeling","Optical coupling","Gold"
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1997. LEOS ´97 10th Annual Meeting. Conference Proceedings., IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3895-2
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.1997.645231
