Bright fiber-free biconically tapered couplers
US4687284A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Sep 4, 1984 |
| Grant date | Aug 18, 1987 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 4, 2004 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG02B6/2856
- WIPO fieldOptics
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A biconically tapered passive star optical coupler has mutually exclusive input and output optical fibers, so that optical power injected into any one of the input fibers is relatively uniformally distributed to all of the output fibers.
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