[WH2] Fiber Devices for Space Division Multiplexing and New Applications

11:45 AM - 12:00 PM JST(2:45 AM - 3:00 AM UTC)

[WH2-3] Low Insertion Loss 3D Waveguide-based Fan-in/Fan-out For a 12-Core Fiber

○Atsushi Oshima¹, Osamu Shimakawa¹, Hajime Arao¹, Takeru Naito¹, Tetsuya Nakanishi¹, Hidehisa Tazawa¹ (1. Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. (Japan))

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Fiber based devices for space division multiplexing

We fabricated a laser inscription 3D waveguide-based fan-in/fan-out for a 12-core fiber and achieved an insertion loss of less than 0.51 dB over both the O-band and C-band across all 12 cores.