Ball-lens based optical add/drop multiplexers: Designs and implementations

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4653, Issue , 2002, Pages 161-171

  Jiang, Wei ^a   Sun, Yingzhi ^a   Zhao, Feng ^a   Chen, Ray T ^a   Guo, Baoping ^b   Horwitz, James ^b   Morey, William ^b  

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

^b Radiant Photonics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Ball lens; GRIN lens; OADM; Packaging; RMS aberration spot size; TEC fiber; Thin film filter; WDM

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; INSERTION LOSSES; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; THIN FILMS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

BALL LENS; OPTICAL ADD-DROP MULTIPLEXER; REFLECTION LIGHT PATH; THIN FILM FILTER; TRANSMISSION LIGHT PATH;

MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0036404765     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.469646     Document Type: Article

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