All-fiber fused directional coupler for highly efficient spatial mode conversion
- Submitting institution
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University of Southampton
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 20331438
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1364/OE.22.011610
- Title of journal
- Optics Express
- Article number
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- First page
- 11610
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 10
- ISSN
- 1094-4087
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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4
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- According to major telecom players, including NTT and Google, modal division multiplexing is the future of optical fibre telecom. A major issue is the generation and multiplexing / demultiplexing of high order modes. This seminal paper addresses this issue in an all-fiberised device and demonstrates the possibility to generate beams with various types of polarization. The work presented in this paper resulted in a patent application (family PCT/GB2016/051659). Commercial exploitation with OZ Optics is currently under discussion. Two follow-on projects (£129k and £213k) on fiberized high-power taps exploiting directional coupling and mode selection were funded by DSTL.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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