Near-field tailored imaging optics for coupling ultra-bright light sources into optical fibers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5942, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-8

  Nakar, Doron ^a   Feuermann, Daniel ^a   Gordon, Jeffrey M ^a,b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBER LIGHT TRANSPORT; RAYTRACE SIMULATIONS; ULTRA-BRIGHT LAMPS;

ABERRATIONS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; RAY TRACING;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 31844444388     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.613079     Document Type: Conference Paper

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