Methods and apparatuses for fiber alignment

Abstract

Aspects of the disclosure may include sequentially emitting a plurality of photons, aligning first photons of the plurality of photons to a first multi-mode (MM) optical fiber of a plurality of MM optical fibers, the first MM optical fiber having a first numerical aperture larger than remaining numerical apertures of remaining optical fibers of the plurality of MM optical fibers, aligning second photons of the plurality of photons to a second MM optical fiber based on first alignment of the first photons to the first MM optical fiber, the second MM optical fiber having a second numerical aperture smaller than the first numerical aperture, and aligning third photons of the plurality of photons to the SM fiber based on second alignment of the second photons to the second MM optical fiber, the SM fiber having a third numerical aperture smaller than the second numerical aperture.

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