Laser diode to single-mode fiber ball lens coupling efficiency: Full-wave calculation and measurements

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 15, 1997, Pages 3435-3438

  Ratowsky, Richard P ^a   Yang, Long ^b   Deri, Robert J ^a   Chang, Kok Wai ^b   Kallman, Jeffrey S ^a   Trott, Gary ^b  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; LENSES; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING;

BALL LENSES; SINGLE MODE FIBER;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 0031143771     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.003435     Document Type: Article

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