Abstract

Coupling has been measured for dry-spliced fibers as a function of break angle. The angles were measured interferometrically to about 0.1° accuracy. An analysis is performed, and the measurements are found to be within 1.0% RMS of the calculation.

© 1977 Optical Society of America

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K. S. Gordon, E. G. Rawson, and R. E. Norton, "Splice losses in step-index fibers: dependency on fiber-break angle; erratum," Appl. Opt. 16, 2774-2774 (1977)
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