Chip-level integrated diffractive optical microlenses for multimode vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser to fiber coupling

Optical Engineering

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 3141-3150

  Ammer, Thomas ^a,c   Gale, Michael T ^a   Rossi, Markus ^b  

^a CSEM   (Switzerland)

^b Heptagon   (Switzerland)

^c HUBER SUHNER AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Fiber coupling; Micro optics; Replication; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASERS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MICROLENSES; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING;

FIBER COUPLINGS;

DIFFRACTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 0036983460     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1518994     Document Type: Article

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