Alignment tolerances for plane-wave to single-mode fiber coupling and their mitigation by use of pigtailed collimators

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 637-644

  Wallner, Oswald ^a   Winzer, Peter J ^a   Leeb, Walter R ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; GRADIENT INDEX OPTICS; INTEGRATION; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES;

PLANE WAVES;

SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

EID: 0036477983     PISSN: 00036935     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.000637     Document Type: Article

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