Multichannel optical coupler array
US10101536B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Nov 13, 2017 |
| Grant date | Oct 16, 2018 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 13, 2037 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG02B6/0288
- WIPO fieldOptics
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A multichannel optical coupler array comprises a coupler housing structure and longitudinal waveguides. At least one of the longitudinal waveguides is a vanishing core waveguide. Light traveling from a first end to a second end can escape from an inner vanishing core into a corresponding outer core proximally to an intermediate cross section, and can escape from the outer core into a combined waveguide formed by at least two neighboring outer cores proximally to the second end.
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