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Mode scrambler
About: Mode scrambler is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 896 publications have been published within this topic receiving 13595 citations.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the bending-induced changes in the modal power distribution of dual-mode optical waveguides were investigated. But the authors focused on the inner core-half of the waveguide and not on the outer core half.
Abstract: Modal characteristics of bent dual-mode planar optical waveguides are obtained. The bending-induced changes in the modal power distribution is found to be quite different for the two modes. Surprisingly, unlike the fundamental mode, bending causes the fractional modal power for the second mode to increase in the inner core-half and to decrease in the outer core-half of the waveguide. Interestingly, this leads to a decrease in effective index of the second mode due to bending at sufficiently high V-values. >
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02 Nov 2009
TL;DR: In this article, an apparatus comprising a mode coupler configured to couple a plurality optical signals into a plurality of modes, and a detector coupled to the single-mode waveguides and configured to detect the single mode signals is presented.
Abstract: An apparatus comprising a mode coupler configured to couple a plurality optical signals into a plurality of modes, and a receiver coupled to the mode coupler and configured to detect the modes to obtain the optical signals, wherein the optical signals are coupled from single mode fibers. Also disclosed is an apparatus comprising a plurality of single mode waveguides configured to transport a plurality of single mode signals, and a detector coupled to the single mode waveguides and configured to detect the single mode signals, wherein the single mode signals are substantially coupled without loss from the single mode waveguides to the detector. Also disclosed is a method comprising receiving a plurality of single mode optical channels, coupling the single mode optical channels into a multimode channel, and detecting the optical modes corresponding to the channels in the multimode channel.
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TL;DR: In this paper, an experimental 95% TE-TM mode conversion efficiency for an uniform longitudinal magnetization was presented for an integrated optics integrated optics system with magnetic birefringence dependence.
Abstract: TE-TM mode conversion, in magneto-optic guides for integrated optics, requires TE-TM mode overlap and phasematching. This two properties are analyzed with circular and linear magnetic birefringence dependence. In application an experimental 95% TE-TM mode conversion efficiency is presented for an uniform longitudinal magnetization.
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TL;DR: An electromagnetic modal theory for characterizing parabolic-index multimode fiber splices with either intrinsic or extrinsic mismatches predicts and experiment confirms a previously unreported periodic fluctuation in splice loss as a function of wavelength for intrinsic parameter mismatch.
Abstract: In this paper we present an electromagnetic modal theory for characterizing parabolic-index multimode fiber splices with either intrinsic or extrinsic mismatches. The theory agrees with previously published theoretical results for transverse offset using a uniform power distribution. It also agrees with new experimental measurements made with a long, spliced input fiber using a published, theoretical, steady-state modal power distribution. This modal theory predicts, and experiment confirms, a previously unreported periodic fluctuation in splice loss as a function of wavelength for intrinsic parameter mismatch. The analysis also predicts a large degree of mode mixing for transverse offset but negligible mode mixing for parameter mismatch in typical multimode fiber splices.
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16 Feb 1997TL;DR: In this article, a reflective phase-matching condition is exploited to improve the spectral properties of the higher order LP/sub-11/ mode in circular, multimode optical fibers.
Abstract: In future fiber communications systems, efficient mode conversion has the potential to enable improved devices for dispersion compensation and wavelength routing. Previous reports of symmetric-asymmetric mode conversion in circular, multimode optical fibers have shown nonideal spectral characteristics due to polarization dependence and/or mode splitting of nearly degenerate components of the higher order LP/sub 11/ mode. This work avoids these problems through use of nominally polarization-independent UV-induced phase gratings while exploiting a reflective phase-matching condition that is much less sensitive to the mode splitting of the LP/sub 11/ mode than prior work.
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