All fiber on-axis coupling scheme between single mode fiber and GRIN fiber

2008 ◽  
Vol 55 (7) ◽  
pp. 1033-1049 ◽  
Author(s):  
Waleed S. Mohammed ◽  
Xija Gu ◽  
Joachim Meier ◽  
Peter W.E. Smith
Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (19) ◽  
pp. 5452
Author(s):  
Stefan Kefer ◽  
Theresia Sauer ◽  
Steffen Hessler ◽  
Michael Kaloudis ◽  
Ralf Hellmann

This article proposes and demonstrates a robust microstructure-based fiber-to-chip coupling scheme for planar Bragg grating devices. A polymer planar Bragg grating substrate is manufactured and microstructured by means of a micromilling process, while the respective photonic structures are generated by employing a sophisticated single-writing UV-exposure method. A stripped standard single-mode fiber is inserted into the microstructure, which is filled with a UV-curable adhesive, and aligned with the integrated waveguide. After curing, final sensor assembly and thermal treatment, the proposed coupling scheme is capable of withstanding pressures up to 10 bar, at room temperature, and pressures up to 7.5 bar at an elevated temperature of 120 °C. Additionally, the coupling scheme is exceedingly robust towards tensile forces, limited only by the tensile strength of the employed single-mode fiber. Due to its outstanding robustness, the coupling scheme enables the application of planar Bragg grating devices in harsh environments. This fact is underlined by integrating a microstructure-coupled photonic device into the center of a commercial-grade carbon fiber reinforced polymer specimen. After its integration, the polymer-based Bragg grating sensor still exhibits a reflection peak with a dynamic range of 24 dB, and can thus be employed for sensing purposes.


2008 ◽  
Vol 47 (34) ◽  
pp. 6345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazuo Shiraishi ◽  
Makoto Kagaya ◽  
Koichi Muro ◽  
Hidehiko Yoda ◽  
Yoshinori Kogami ◽  
...  

2002 ◽  
Vol 722 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. S. Sriram ◽  
B. Strauss ◽  
S. Pappas ◽  
A. Baliga ◽  
A. Jean ◽  
...  

AbstractThis paper describes the results of extensive performance and reliability characterization of a silicon-based surface micro-machined tunable optical filter. The device comprises a high-finesse Fabry-Perot etalon with one flat and one curved dielectric mirror. The curved mirror is mounted on an electrostatically actuated silicon nitride membrane tethered to the substrate using silicon nitride posts. A voltage applied to the membrane allows the device to be tuned by adjusting the length of the cavity. The device is coupled optically to an input and an output single mode fiber inside a hermetic package. Extensive performance characterization (over operating temperature range) was performed on the packaged device. Parameters characterized included tuning characteristics, insertion loss, filter line-width and side mode suppression ratio. Reliability testing was performed by subjecting the MEMS structure to a very large number of actuations at an elevated temperature both inside the package and on a test board. The MEMS structure was found to be extremely robust, running trillions of actuations without failures. Package level reliability testing conforming to Telcordia standards indicated that key device parameters including insertion loss, filter line-width and tuning characteristics did not change measurably over the duration of the test.


2021 ◽  
Vol 395 ◽  
pp. 127226
Author(s):  
Jun Guo ◽  
Xiao Hu ◽  
Jie Ma ◽  
Luming Zhao ◽  
Deyuan Shen ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Georg Rademacher ◽  
Benjamin J. Puttnam ◽  
Ruben S. Luís ◽  
Tobias A. Eriksson ◽  
Nicolas K. Fontaine ◽  
...  

AbstractData rates in optical fiber networks have increased exponentially over the past decades and core-networks are expected to operate in the peta-bit-per-second regime by 2030. As current single-mode fiber-based transmission systems are reaching their capacity limits, space-division multiplexing has been investigated as a means to increase the per-fiber capacity. Of all space-division multiplexing fibers proposed to date, multi-mode fibers have the highest spatial channel density, as signals traveling in orthogonal fiber modes share the same fiber-core. By combining a high mode-count multi-mode fiber with wideband wavelength-division multiplexing, we report a peta-bit-per-second class transmission demonstration in multi-mode fibers. This was enabled by combining three key technologies: a wideband optical comb-based transmitter to generate highly spectral efficient 64-quadrature-amplitude modulated signals between 1528 nm and 1610 nm wavelength, a broadband mode-multiplexer, based on multi-plane light conversion, and a 15-mode multi-mode fiber with optimized transmission characteristics for wideband operation.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Josu Amorebieta ◽  
Angel Ortega-Gomez ◽  
Gaizka Durana ◽  
Rubén Fernández ◽  
Enrique Antonio-Lopez ◽  
...  

AbstractWe propose and demonstrate a compact and simple vector bending sensor capable of distinguishing any direction and amplitude with high accuracy. The sensor consists of a short segment of asymmetric multicore fiber (MCF) fusion spliced to a standard single mode fiber. The reflection spectrum of such a structure shifts and shrinks in specific manners depending on the direction in which the MCF is bent. By monitoring simultaneously wavelength shift and light power variations, the amplitude and bend direction of the MCF can be unmistakably measured in any orientation, from 0° to 360°. The bending sensor proposed here is highly sensitive even for small bending angles (below 1°).


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Zhang ◽  
Shoufei Gao ◽  
Yingying Wang ◽  
Wei Ding ◽  
Pu Wang

Abstract High-power fiber lasers have experienced a dramatic development over the last decade. Further increasing the output power needs an upscaling of the fiber mode area, while maintaining a single-mode output. Here, we propose an all-solid anti-resonant fiber (ARF) structure, which ensures single-mode operation in broadband by resonantly coupling higher-order modes into the cladding. A series of fibers with core sizes ranging from 40 to 100 μm are proposed exhibiting maximum mode area exceeding 5000 μm2. Numerical simulations show this resonant coupling scheme provides a higher-order mode (mainly TE01, TM01, and HE21) suppression ratio of more than 20 dB, while keeping the fundamental mode loss lower than 1 dB/m. The proposed structure also exhibits high tolerance for core index depression.


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