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Patent Inventor Names
Douglas P Holcomb0
Andrew John Stentz0
Paul F Wysocki0
Stephan F Wielandy0
Date of Patent
August 5, 2008
Patent Application Number
11169338
Date Filed
June 29, 2005
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Patent abstract
An improved tapered fiber bundle (TFB), or assembly including a TFB, mitigates undesirable reflections from optical discontinuities at the input ends of the multimode fibers of the TFB by suppressing the coupling of signal light into modes that can produce undesired reflections. Means are provided for managing the mode field of injected signal light so that it remains substantially confined to the core of the central TFB fiber until it is past the region where it can interact with the multimode fibers of the TFB.
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