PLC CONNECTOR WITH FIBER PHYSICAL CONTACT

Authors
ASAKAWA S NAGASE R KOBAYASHI M MITACHI S
Citation
S. Asakawa et al., PLC CONNECTOR WITH FIBER PHYSICAL CONTACT, Electronics Letters, 33(20), 1997, pp. 1730-1731
Citations number
3
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic
Journal title
Electronics Letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00135194
Volume
33
Issue
20
Year of publication
1997
Pages
1730 - 1731
Database
ISI
SICI code
0013-5194(1997)33:20<1730:PCWFPC>2.0.ZU;2-C
Abstract
A novel planar lightwave circuit (PLC) connector utilising physical co ntact (PC) between bare fibres and waveguides was developed. This conn ector allows the use of PLC-based optical modules without fibre pigtai ls. The fabricated connectors successfully realised average connection and return losses of 0.25 and 43 dB, respectively.