Accession Number:

ADD002117

Title:

Optical Access Coupler for Fiber Bundles.

Descriptive Note:

Patent,

Corporate Author:

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY WASHINGTON D C

Personal Author(s):

• Brown,Lorin W.

Report Date:

1975-09-02

Pagination or Media Count:

4.0

Abstract:

This optical access coupler is used to extract a fraction of the light carried by a multimode optical fiber bundle data transmission line and to inject light signals onto the tranmission line in such a way as to distribute the input light nearly uniformly over the fibers of the fiber bundle transmission line. A portion of the light on the transmission line is coupled out while a different portion continues straight through the access coupler.

Descriptors:

• *Fiber optics transmission lines
• *Waveguide couplers
• *Optical waveguides
• *Patents
• Data transmission systems

Subject Categories:

• Fiber Optics and Integrated Optics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE