Multicore Fibers
Single Mode & Multimode Fibers
Overview
Based on our original telecom experience of making Twincore fibers for the Add/drop mutiplexers, iXblue in collaboration with Photonics Bretagne is now offering Multicore fibers for shape and temperature/strain sensing.
Multicore fibers can be used in a large variety of sensing application where the need to reduce the global footprint is also required for cables and connectors.
Multicore fibers have photosensitive cores, allowing Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) inscription and can be tailored to match the exact customer specifications.
Products
| Product | Specification | Datasheet | |
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| Active Fibers | |||
| IXF-MC-2-EDF-PAS-125-024 | 2 cores Er-doped & passive | More info | |
| IXF-MC-4-EDF-FGC-980 | 4 cores Er doped | More info | |
| IXF-2CF-MC-12-EY-6 | 12 cores Er/Yb co-doped | More info | |
| Passive Fibers | |||
| IXF-MC-4-SM-1060 | 4 cores Fan-out available on demand |
More info | |
| IXF-MC-7-SM-1550 | 7 cores Fan-out available on demand |
More info | |
| IXF-MC-12-PAS-6 | 12 cores Fan-out available on demand |
More info | |
| IXF-2CF-MC-12-PAS-6 | 12 cores Double clad |
More info |
Publication
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Power efficient all-fiberized 12-core erbium/ytterbium doped optical amplifier
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition (OFC) – March 2020
20dB gain in C-band with only 5.3W of pump is achieved with an all-fiberized 12-core Er/Yb doped fiber amplifier. This result is a first step towards SDM transmission including power efficient amplifiers and ROADM.
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FIFO-less Core-pump Combiner for Multicore Fiber Amplifier
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition (OFC) – June 2021
We demonstrate a core-pumping scheme for multicore EDFA with cascaded side-polished fiber couplers for the first time. The pump coupling ratio exceeds 70% while keeping signal coupling less than 10%.
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