Control of mode evolution in the multimode optical fiber for reliable evaluation of the multimode polymer optical waveguide

Author

Tan, Freddy Susanto ; Sugihara, Okihiro ; Kaino, Toshikuni

Author_Institution

Inst. of Multidiscipl. Res. for Adv. Mater., Tohoku Univ., Sendai, Japan

fYear

2011

fDate

Oct. 30 2011-Nov. 2 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

A standard evaluation method for the multimode polymer optical waveguides is necessary to obtain reliable experimental results. There are several categories of evaluation techniques proposed by the International Electro-technical Commission (IEC). We have developed a simple input launch configuration to control mode evolution in the multimode optical fiber by means of the Encircled Flux (EF) category. Furthermore, we have examined our input launch system by evaluating insertion loss of the multimode polymer optical waveguides. The experimental results demonstrated the insertion loss variation of less than 5 %.

Keywords

optical control; optical fibre losses; optical polymers; optical waveguides; encircled flux; input launch system; insertion loss; mode evolution control; multimode optical fiber; multimode polymer optical waveguide; Area measurement; Materials reliability; Optical fibers; Optical polymers; Optical variables measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microopics Conference (MOC), 2011 17th

Conference_Location

Sendai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1344-6

Type

conf

Filename

6110316