Coupling-sensitivity comparison of hemispheric and hyperbolic microlenses

Applied Optics

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 1993, Pages 1573-1577

  Edwards, C A ^a,b   Presby, H M ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTICS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; ALIGNMENT; MICROLENSES; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

ANGULAR MISALIGNMENTS; COUPLING SENSITIVITY; HEMISPHERIC MICROLENSES; HYPERBOLIC MICROLENSES;

LENSES;

ANGULAR MISALIGNMENT; COUPLING SENSITIVITY; HYPERBOLIC LENS; LASER PACKAGES; MICRO-LENS; OPTICAL POWER; POWER PENALTY; TRANSLATIONAL DISPLACEMENTS;

EID: 0027565693     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.32.001573     Document Type: Article

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