Microscopic corrugations form on fiber surfaces. Grating couplers couple signals into and out of single-mode optical waveguides without requiring precise alignment of components, although in-service efficiency has yet to be verified.
Fabricating Grating Couplers on Optical Fibers
NASA Tech Briefs ; 7 , 3
1983-08-01
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