The operating principle, fabrication and performance of a wavelength-flattened 1×7 single-mode fused coupler is reported. The device has low excess loss (<0.3 dB) together with good coupling uniformity (<1% standard deviation) at both 1.3 and 1.53 μm.
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Mortimore et al. (1989) studied this question.