Degradation of single-mode fiber coupling efficiency due to localized wavefront aberrations in free-space laser communications

Optical Engineering

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Ma, Jing ^a   Zhao, Fang ^a   Tan, Liying ^a   Yu, Siyuan ^a   Yang, Yuqiang ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

localized deformation; optical communication; single mode fibers

Indexed keywords

CENTER DISTANCE; CHANGE OF CHARACTERISTICS; COHERENT PLANE WAVES; COUPLING EFFICIENCY; FREE SPACE LASER COMMUNICATIONS; FREE-SPACE COMMUNICATION; LOCALIZED DEFORMATIONS; OPTICAL BEAMS; SINGLE-MODE-FIBER COUPLING; WAVEFRONT ABERRATIONS;

ABERRATIONS; DEFORMATION; EFFICIENCY; FIBERS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 79958843862     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3407427     Document Type: Article

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