Simple and reliable light launch from a conventional single-mode fiber into a helical-core fiber through an adiabatically tapered splice

Kim, Hyuntai, Kim, Jongki, Jung, Yongmin, Vazquez-Zuniga, Luis Alonso, Lee, Seung Jong, Choi, Geunchang, Oh, Kyunghwan, Wang, Pu, Clarkson, W.A. and Jeong, Yoonchan (2012) Simple and reliable light launch from a conventional single-mode fiber into a helical-core fiber through an adiabatically tapered splice. Optics Express, 20 (23), 25562-25571. (doi:10.1364/OE.20.025562).

Abstract

We propose a simple and efficient light launch scheme for a helical-core fiber (HCF) by using an adiabatically tapered splice technique, through which we overcome its inherent difficulty with light launch owing to the large lateral offset and angular tilt of its core. We experimentally demonstrate single-mode excitation in the HCF in this configuration, which yields the coupling efficiency of around -5.9 dB (26%) for a ~1.1 µm light input when the splice joint is tapered down to 30 µm in diameter. To our knowledge, this is the first proof-of-principle report on the fusion-splice coupling between an HCF and a conventional single-mode fiber.

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Author: Yongmin Jung

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