Bitaper star couplers with up to 100 fibre channels

5 July 1979

journal article
Published by Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in Electronics Letters

Vol. 15 (14) , 432-433
https://doi.org/10.1049/el:19790310

Abstract

Biconically tapered fibre-optic star couplers with up to 100 fibre channels are reported which have excess insertion losses as low as −0.56 dB and normalised standard deviations of output poers as low as 4.4%

Keywords

INSERTION LOSS
OPTICAL FIBRES
100 FIBRE CHANNELS
OUTPUT POWERS
TAPERED FIBRES
BITAPER STAR COUPLERS
PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS
FABRICATION TECHNIQUE