Micro-optical 1 ×4 fiber switch for multimode fibers with 600-μm core diameters

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 34, 2003, Pages 6889-6896

  Duparré, Jacques ^a   Götz, Bernt ^b   Göring, Rolf ^c  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

^b Piezosystem Jena GmbH   (Germany)

^c Pyramid Optics GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ACTUATORS; BANDWIDTH; LASER BEAMS; MICROLENSES; MICROOPTICS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

DEFLECTION ANGLES; FOCAL LENGTH; RESIDUAL DIVERGENCE;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 0345117251     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.006889     Document Type: Article

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