Optical couplers are very important devices in optical communication systems and optical sensor systems. Several types of optical couplers with different materials or different transmission characteristics have been reported. Here we propose a semi-reciprocal polarization maintaining fibre coupler with unique transmission characteristics, which is distinct from conventional polarization maintai...

More than 60% overall coupling efficiency is achieved in the demonstrator of an optical interconnect comprising an input grating coupler, a multimode slab waveguide section and an output grating coupler. The grating coupling strength is enhanced by means of a leaky mode resonance. The efficiency of the resonant grating coupler compares favourably with the performancs reported on mirror inserts.

A method to improve the isolation of the microstrip coupler is presented. The pattern of the coupler is modified for phase velocity compensation which results in high isolation. Using this procedure, a 15 dB coupler is designed and fabricated at 0.9 GHz. A high isolation of 63.3 dB is measured. The validity of the design concept is verified by simulations and measurements.

The nonlinear fiber coupler is considered as a Hamiltonian dynamical system with an infinite number of degrees of freedom, with the soliton states of the coupler being the singular points of this dynamical system. Numerical simulations show that arbitrary initial conditions give rise, asymptotically, to oscillations around some of the stable singular points and some amount of radiation. Example...

The design for a reversible microfluidic coupler is proposed for use with microreactors and other MEMS devices. However, real couplers will include imperfections that must be considered to fully evaluate the degree of sealing. A method is presented for applying a normally distributed surface finish with a predetermined amplitude to a perfectly flat contact surface. The method is then applied to...

Soliton switching in a nonlinear directional coupler (NLDC) with Kerr nonlinearity and coupling constant dispersion (caused by intermodal dispersion between the symmetric and the anti-symmetric modes of the coupler) is studied using the well-known variational method. Switching characteristics are calculated and discussed. It is shown that the switching characteristics of the Kerr coupler for al...

Article history: Received: 14.01.2014. Received in revised form: 01.03.2014. Accepted: 12.03.2014. Optoelectronic coupler, characterized by long life and high reliability, is one typical kind of optoelectronic devices. Accelerated degradation testing is mostly utilized to assess optoelectronic coupler storage life. However, in engineering, integrated optoelectronic coupler may be nagged with th...

Development of a 150 kW CW RF power delivery system for 1300 MHz superconducting cavities is under way at Cornell University in collaboration with MEPhI. The system is based on a twin-coupler consisting of two identical coaxial antenna-type couplers derived from the TTF III input coupler design. Because the average power is much higher than in the TTF III coupler, the required coupling is stron...

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The bERLinPro project [1], under construction at HZB, is a 100 mA, 50 MeV superconducting RF (SRF) energy recovery linac (ERL) being built to study the accelerator technology and physics of operating a high current SRF ERL. For this high current operation, coaxial RF power couplers capable of handling 115 kW of power (per coupler, dual couplers per cavity), continuous wave (cw) at 1.3 GHz are r...