Vanishing Core Optical Waveguides for Coupling, Amplification, Sensing, and Polarization Control

• DOI: 10.1364/sof.2014.sow1b.3
• Publication Date: 2014-08-18T08:59:45Z
• Authors: V. I. Kopp; J. Park; M. S. Wlodawski; E. Hubner; J. Singer; D. Neugroschl; A. Z. Genack
• Keywords: Polarization-division multiplexing

Microformed, adiabatically tapered optical waveguides utilizing a "vanishing core" concept possess unique properties that make them useful for dense multichannel coupling, spatial division multiplexing communications and sensing, polarization control, amplification.