@article{6a73679f074d45c7a960bb4dc2372043,
title = "The photonic lantern",
abstract = "Photonic lanterns are made by adiabatically merging several single-mode cores into one multimode core. They provide low loss interfaces between single-mode and multimode systems, where the precise optical mapping between cores and individual modes is unimportant. (C) 2015 Optical Society of America",
keywords = "ULTRAFAST-LASER INSCRIPTION, MULTIMODE WAVE-GUIDE, FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS, SINGLE-MODE FIBERS, NULL TAPER COUPLER, FEMTOSECOND LASER, OPTICAL-FIBERS, ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTATION, MULTICORE FIBER, OH SUPPRESSION",
author = "Birks, \{T. A.\} and I. Gris-Sanchez and S. Yerolatsitis and Leon-Saval, \{S. G.\} and Thomson, \{R. R.\}",
note = "{"}At Bath we thank the Anglo-Australian Observatory, the Leibniz-Institut f{\"u}r Astrophysik Potsdam, the EPSRC, and the Leverhulme Trust. At Heriot-Watt, R. R. T. gratefully acknowledges funding from the STFC in the form of an STFC Advanced Fellowship (ST/H005595/1). For current funding, both institutions acknowledge the European Union via the OPTICON Research Infrastructure for Optical/IR Astronomy (EU-FP7 226604) and the STFC via the Project Research and Development (STFC-PRD) scheme (ST/K00235X/1).{"}",
year = "2015",
doi = "10.1364/AOP.7.000107",
language = "English",
volume = "7",
pages = "107--167",
journal = "Advances in Optics and Photonics",
issn = "1943-8206",
publisher = "The Optical Society",
number = "2",
}