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.
@article{arxiv.1503.02837,
title = {The Photonic Lantern},
author = {T. A. Birks and I. Gris-Sánchez and S. Yerolatsitis and S. G. Leon-Saval and R. R. Thomson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.02837},
year = {2015}
}
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45 pages; article unchanged, accepted for publication in Advances in Optics and Photonics