Lensed-taper launching coupler for small-bore, infrared hollow fibers

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 30, 1997, Pages 7818-7821

  Matsuura, Yuji ^a   Hiraga, Hajime ^a   Wang, You ^a   Kato, Yuji ^a   Miyagi, Mitsunobu ^a   Abe, Shin Ichi ^a   Onodera, Shinji ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hollow waveguide; Infrared fiber optics; Infrared laser

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; FIBER OPTICS; GLASS FIBERS; LASERS; LENSES; METALLIC FILMS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PLASTIC FILMS;

DISPLACEMENT; LAUNCHING COUPLER DESIGN; RAY TRACING METHOD;

OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING;

EID: 0031248118     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.007818     Document Type: Article

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