Improvements in fiber optic coupler fabrication techniques

A novel coupler measurement station and technique for manufacturing fused biconical tapered multi-port multimode couplers with improved uniformity among ports is presented. Improvement in the uniformity of the couplers is achieved by diffusion of the minimum taper region of the coupler. The phenomen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vuppala, Verrendra B.
Other Authors: Electrical Engineering
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/43801
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07212009-040455/