Reflective-refractive microlens for efficient light-emitting-diode-to-fiber coupling

Optical Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2005, Pages

  Rooman, Cathleen ^a   Kuijk, Maarten ^b   Vounckx, Roger ^b   Heremans, Paul ^a  

^a IMEC   (Belgium)

^b FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Efficient fiber coupling; Light emitting diode; Microlens; Optical communication

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; LITHOGRAPHY; MULTIMODE FIBERS; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; REFLECTION; REFRACTION; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE;

GRAYSCALE LITHOGRAPHY; NUMERICAL APERTURE; REFLECTIVE-REFRACTIVE MICROLENS; WAFER SCALE;

MICROLENSES;

EID: 33745539407     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2049207     Document Type: Article

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