Nineteen-port photonic lantern with multimode delivery fiber

D. Noordegraaf; P. M W Skovgaard; R. H. Sandberg; M. D. Maack; J. Bland-Hawthorn; J. S. Lawrence; J. Lægsgaard

doi:10.1364/OL.37.000452

Nineteen-port photonic lantern with multimode delivery fiber

D. Noordegraaf^*, P. M W Skovgaard, R. H. Sandberg, M. D. Maack, J. Bland-Hawthorn, J. S. Lawrence, J. Lægsgaard

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Abstract

We demonstrate efficient multimode (MM) to single-mode (SM) conversion in a 19-port photonic lantern with a 50 μm core MM delivery fiber. The photonic lantern can be used within the field of astrophotonics for coupling MM starlight to an ensemble of SM fibers in order to perform fiber-Bragg-grating-based spectral filtering. An MM delivery fiber spliced to the photonic lantern offers the advantage that the delivery fiber guides the light from the focal plane of the telescope to the splitter. Therefore, it is no longer necessary to have the splitter mounted directly in the focal plane of the telescope. The coupling loss from a 50 μm core MM fiber to an ensemble of 19 SM fibers and back to a 50 μm core MM fiber is below 1.1 dB.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	452-454
Number of pages	3
Journal	Optics Letters
Volume	37
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.37.000452
Publication status	Published - 15 Feb 2012

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