Coupling of a laser diode to single-mode fiber with an upside-down tapered lens end

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 30, 1999, Pages 6272-6277

  Mondal, Samir Kumar ^a   Sarkar, Somenath ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

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EID: 0042731234     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.006272     Document Type: Article

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