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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 30, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Terry Bricheno, Great Sampford, GB;
James Wilson Parker, Herts, GB;
Assignee:
Bookham Technology PLC, Abingdon, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/255 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/255 ;
Abstract
An assembly for combining the outputs from a group of n single mode optical fibres on to the photosensitive surface of a photodetector ( ) has an adiabatically tapered bundle ( ) of fibres ( ) the small end of which is fusion spliced to one end of a length ( ) of multimode fibre whose other end is optically coupled with the detector ( ) by means of a lens ( ).