Shaping of the end of a multimode optical fiber for efficient coupling light from a laser diode

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 77-85

  Sevastianov, Sergey B ^a   Vatnik, Sergey M ^a   Mayorov, Alexander P ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF LASER PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; REFLECTION; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SURFACE STRUCTURE;

OPTIMUM ENTRANCE SURFACE; RAY OPTICS APPROXIMATION; REFLECTION COEFFICIENT; TRANSMISSION COEFFICIENTS;

MULTIMODE FIBERS;

EID: 0032614662     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.000077     Document Type: Article

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