Optical waveguide including singlemode waveguide channels couple

Details Optical waveguide including singlemode waveguide channels couple Optical waveguide including singlemode waveguide channels couple

1994-12-01

1998-01-27

Bovernick, Rodney B.

Optical waveguides

With optical coupler

Particular coupling structure

385 50, 385 46, 385 28, 385 31, 385132, 385 12, 359110, G02B 630, G02B 628

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active

057129371

ABSTRACT:
An intrusion-alarmed optical fiber communication system, where light from two or more sources are launched with a planar channel waveguide launcher into two or more modes of a multimode graded-index transmission fiber, is disclosed. Input fibers containing the source light waves and the output fibers are in direct contact with the waveguide channels. Waveguide channels redistribute the light from input channels to output channels by rerouting, crossing, merging, or splitting channels. Waveguide launcher precisely launches data light into the fundamental mode and intrusion monitor light into high order modes of a multimode graded-index fiber. Fiber intrusion attenuates light in high order modes, but much less of the data in the fundamental mode, thereby forming a basis for the intrusion-alarmed system. Waveguide launcher permits light from a plurality of sources to be launched selectively into several types of fibers: singlemode fibers, multimode fibers, multicore fibers, multimode fibers having high refractive-index ring profile within the fiber core boundary. Waveguide channel configuration permit other versatile functions to be performed; these include optical time domain reflectometry, channel feedback stabilization of the diodes, launching light from more than one light source into the fundamental mode of a multimode graded-index fiber, and other functions. Means for launching and propagating the fundamental mode in multimode graded-index fiber in order to increase bandwidth capacity of said fiber are disclosed. Optical-electronic intrusion-alarmed systems with synchronous phase sensitive detection of intrusion are described, including reference recovery means. In order to decrease false alarm rates, information on transmitter light source variations are transmitted to the receiver via digital bit stream. A precise fiber optic sensor system based on the waveguide launcher is disclosed.

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