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Directional coupling has been observed both from a single-mode fiber to a single mode planar polymer waveguide and vice versa. The fiber coupler was prepared by polishing. The matching of propagation constants was achieved by using a polymer film only a few hundred nanometers thick.
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Zhang et al. (1987) studied this question.
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