Laser diode to single-mode fiber ball lens coupling efficiency: full-wave calculation and measurements
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551 (United States)
- Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, California 94303-0867 (United States)
We show that the coupling efficiency from a laser diode (LD) to an optical fiber through a ball lens can be calculated accurately using the exact solution to Maxwell{close_quote}s equations for the scattering of a beam from a dielectric sphere. Our calculated results agree closely with coupling measurements from an asymmetric LD for two different ball lenses. {copyright} 1997 Optical Society of America
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-48
- OSTI ID:
- 678694
- Journal Information:
- Applied Optics, Journal Name: Applied Optics Journal Issue: 15 Vol. 36; ISSN 0003-6935; ISSN APOPAI
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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