TY - GEN
T1 - Design and Fabrication of Three-dimensional Polymer Optical Waveguide-based Fan-in/out Device for Multicore Fibers
AU - Yamaguchi, Yuto
AU - Yakabe, Sho
AU - Ishigure, Takaaki
N1 - Funding Information:
In this paper, a three-dimensional polymer waveguide FIFO device, which could work as a connection element under the practical usage of MCFs is proposed by fabricating it with the Mosquito method. By re-designing the core arrangement and bending structures, as well as the needle-scan program, the cores could be dispensed on a designed path more accurately to achieve low insertion loss. The fabricated FIFO waveguide with a length as short as 10 mm exhibited the lowest insertion loss of 1.09 dB at 1310 nm. Because of the high core position accuracy, four cores in the FIFO waveguide exhibited high coupling efficiency at the connection with a 1-D arrayed fiber ribbon. This three-dimensional FIFO waveguide with low loss and compact size is expected to be integrated in a connector in etchataulp plicaations. This work was partially supported by JSPS KAKENHI under Grant JP18H05238.
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Compact and low-loss fan-in/-out waveguides are successfully fabricated using the Mosquito method, in which four cores vary their arrangement three-dimensionally from one end to the other and they are precisely aligned to couple to multicore fibers.
AB - Compact and low-loss fan-in/-out waveguides are successfully fabricated using the Mosquito method, in which four cores vary their arrangement three-dimensionally from one end to the other and they are precisely aligned to couple to multicore fibers.
KW - fan-in/out waveguide
KW - multicore fiber
KW - the Mosquito method
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U2 - 10.1109/ICSJ55786.2022.10034708
DO - 10.1109/ICSJ55786.2022.10034708
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85148698928
T3 - 2022 IEEE CPMT Symposium Japan, ICSJ 2022
SP - 41
EP - 44
BT - 2022 IEEE CPMT Symposium Japan, ICSJ 2022
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 11th IEEE CPMT Symposium Japan, ICSJ 2022
Y2 - 9 November 2022 through 11 November 2022
ER -