Abstract
The concept of internal reflectance at grazing incidence has been used to construct functional 4:1 electrooptic multiplexers for multimode single-fiber optical data communication. Individual multiplexer units having insertion losses as low as 10 dB and optical signal-to-crosstalk ratios as high as 15 dB have been fabricated. A complete time division multiplexed optical data link has been assembled using two 4:1 multiplexers. The operation of this link demonstrates the feasibility of optically multiplexing multimode signals and represents a benchmark in the progress to control and route multimode light energy.
© 1978 Optical Society of America
Full Article | PDF ArticleMore Like This
W. B. Spillman, R. L. Gravel, and R. A. Soref
Appl. Opt. 17(23) 3822-3826 (1978)
A. R. Nelson and R. A. Soref
Appl. Opt. 16(1) 119-125 (1977)
Richard A. Soref
Appl. Opt. 21(8) 1386-1393 (1982)