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Fabrication of wavelength-flattened tapered couplers usingpolishing for cladding removal |
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| Authors: | Hussey C.D. Birks T.A. |
| Affiliation: | Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Sci., Southampton Univ.; |
| Abstract: | Wavelength-flattened fused tapered couplers have been fabricated with low loss using a new technique. The asymmetry between the constituent fibres is induced by the rapid removal of a small amount of the cladding of one of the fibres with a polishing wheel |
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