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

12:00 PM - 12:15 PM JST(3:00 AM - 3:15 AM UTC)

[WH2-4] Core Rotatable Adapter with 90-Degree Granularity for Multicore Fiber Connection

○Daiki Soma¹, Hidenori Takahashi¹, Shohei Beppu¹, Isao Yamauchi², Tsutomu Okamoto², Yuta Wakayama¹, Noboru Yoshikane¹, Takehiro Tsuritani¹ (1. KDDI Research, Inc. (Japan), 2. Orbray Co., Ltd. (Japan))

Keywords:

Connectors,splicing and interconnection technology,SDM

We propose a core rotatable adapter that can optically compensate for the core rotation that occurs in the construction of multicore fiber transmission lines. Its connection loss is not significantly increased compared to conventional adapters.