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Astrophotonics (AP)
Fiberbased three-dimensional multi-mode
Fiberbased three-dimensional multi-mode interference device as efficient power divider and vector curvature sensor
2018
Z. Zhang, J. Fiebrandt, D. Haynes, K. Sun, K. Madhav, A. Stoll, K. Makan, V. Makan, M. M. Roth
Three-dimensional multi-mode interference devices are demonstrated using a single-mode fiber (SMF) center-spliced to a section of polygon-shaped core multimode fiber (MMF). This simple structure can effectively generate well-localized self-focusing spots that match to the layout of a chosen multi-core fiber (MCF) as a launcher device. An optimized hexagon-core MMF can provide efficient coupling from a SMF to a 7-core MCF with an insertion loss of 0.6 dB and a power imbalance of 0.5 dB, while a square-core MMF can form a self-imaging pattern with symmetrically distributed 2 × 2, 3 × 3 or 4 × 4 spots. These spots can be directly received by a two-dimensional detector array. The device can work as a vector curvature sensor by comparing the relative power among the spots with a resolution of ~0.1° over a 1.8 mm-long MMF.
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