Abstract

A technique for the non-destructive characterisation of couplers is proposed. A CO/sub 2/ laser beam is scanned along the coupler length inducing a local perturbation to the coupler eigenmodes. Asymmetric and symmetric perturbations can give accurate mapping of power-evolution and coupler-waist shape.

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