Fiber-coupler-based measurement of lenslet focal lengths

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 711-715

  Mac Farlane, D L ^a   Wilson, E ^a   Cox, W ^b   Chen, T ^b   Ussery, D ^b   Hayes, D J ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

^b MicroFab Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Methylene iodide; Refractometer; Temperature dependent refractive index

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; DIFFRACTION; HELIUM NEON LASERS; LENSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROSCOPES; MIRRORS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

BEAM PROPAGATION THEORY; FIBER COUPLER; FOCAL LENGTH MEASUREMENT; MICROLENSES; MISALIGNMENT; STEP INDEX FIBER SPLITTER;

OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0030078815     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.000711     Document Type: Article

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