The photonic lantern

TA Birks, I Gris-Sánchez, S Yerolatsitis… - Advances in Optics …, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Photonic lanterns are made by adiabatically merging several single-mode cores into one
multimode core. They provide low-loss interfaces between single-mode and multimode …

[HTML][HTML] Tilted fiber grating mechanical and biochemical sensors

T Guo, F Liu, BO Guan, J Albert - Optics & Laser Technology, 2016 - Elsevier
The tilted fiber Bragg grating (TFBG) is a new kind of fiber-optic sensor that possesses all the
advantages of well-established Bragg grating technology in addition to being able to excite …

Photonic lanterns, 3-D waveguides, multiplane light conversion, and other components that enable space-division multiplexing

NK Fontaine, J Carpenter, S Gross… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Four-mode multiplexing and manipulation technologies are reviewed in the context of space-
division multiplexing (SDM) optical communication systems. These are multiplane light …

Six mode selective fiber optic spatial multiplexer

AM Velazquez-Benitez, JC Alvarado… - Optics letters, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Low-loss all-fiber photonic lantern (PL) mode multiplexers (MUXs) capable of selectively
exciting the first six fiber modes of a multimode fiber (LP_01, LP_11a, LP_11b, LP_21a …

Scaling photonic lanterns for space-division multiplexing

AM Velázquez-Benítez, JE Antonio-López… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
We present a new technique allowing the fabrication of large modal count photonic lanterns
for space-division multiplexing applications. We demonstrate mode-selective photonic …

Round-trip multi-band quantum access network

Y Xu, T Wang, H Zhao, P Huang, G Zeng - Photonics Research, 2023 - opg.optica.org
The quantum network makes use of quantum states to transmit data, which will revolutionize
classical communication and allow for some breakthrough applications. Quantum key …

Demonstration of hybrid orbital angular momentum multiplexing and time-division multiplexing passive optical network

A Wang, L Zhu, J Liu, C Du, Q Mo, J Wang - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Mode-division multiplexing passive optical network (MDM-PON) is a promising scheme for
next-generation access networks to further increase fiber transmission capacity. In this …

Cascaded mode-division-multiplexing and time-division-multiplexing passive optical network based on low mode-crosstalk FMF and mode MUX/DEMUX

F Ren, J Li, T Hu, R Tang, J Yu, Q Mo… - IEEE Photonics …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose cascaded mode-division-multiplexing and time-division-multiplexing passive
optical network (MDM-TDM-PON) based on low mode-crosstalk few-mode fiber (FMF) and …

Photonic lantern as mode multiplexer for multimode optical communications

SG Leon-Saval, NK Fontaine… - Optical Fiber …, 2017 - Elsevier
The majority of optical fiber technology developments in the applied sciences have arisen
from developments in telecommunications. However, the photonic lantern is one of several …

Simultaneous distributed acoustic sensing and communication over a two-mode fiber

JM Marin, I Ashry, O Alkhazragi, A Trichili, T Khee Ng… - Optics Letters, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We designed and tested a distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) that co-exists with optical
communication over a two-mode fiber (TMF). In particular, we excited both linearly polarized …