A distributive coupling technique is described in which some portion of the light signal is coupled into and out of all fibers of a bundle in parallel. Tees employing distributive coupling require no mixer rods, dissipate no power via packing fraction losses, and hence exhibit a throughout coupling loss which asymptotically approaches zero as the power coupled to the side arm decreases.
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McMahon et al. (1976) studied this question.