Optical coupling methods for cost-effective polymer optical fiber communication

IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 593-599

  Chandrappan, Jayakrishnan ^a   Jing, Zhang ^a   Mohan, Ramkumar Veppathur ^b   Gomez, Philbert Oliver ^c   Aung, Than Aye ^d   Yongfei, Xiao ^b   Ramana, Pamidighantam V ^a   Lau, John H ^a   Kwong, Dim Lee ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Characterization; Detector; Fabrication; Lensed fiber; Optical coupling; Polymer optical fiber; Simulation

Indexed keywords

COUPLING EFFICIENCY; DIRECT COUPLING; FABRICATION PROCESS; LENS COUPLING; LENSED FIBER; LENSED FIBERS; LIGHT COUPLING EFFICIENCY; LIGHT COUPLINGS; LOW COST FABRICATION; OPTICAL COUPLING; OPTICAL COUPLINGS; OPTICAL SIMULATION; POLYMER OPTICAL FIBER; POLYMER OPTICAL FIBERS; SIMULATION; SIMULATION STUDIES;

COST EFFECTIVENESS; FIBER OPTICS; FIBERS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; POLYMERS;

OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION;

EID: 70349266281     PISSN: 15213331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCAPT.2008.2011559     Document Type: Article

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