Title

Light coupling by a vortex lens into graded index fiber

Authors

Authors

E. G. Johnson; J. Stack;C. Koehler

Comments

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Abbreviated Journal Title

J. Lightwave Technol.

Keywords

diffractive optics; fiber optics; multimode fiber (MMF); MULTIMODE FIBER; LAUNCH; LINKS; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic; Optics; Telecommunications

Abstract

This paper reports a novel launch scheme for coupling light into the skew rays of a graded index fiber. This is accomplished by utilizing a diffractive optical element in conjunction with a single mode fiber to mode match a graded index fiber. Results are used to confirm the fact that the element does improve the coupling into the skew rays of graded index fiber. This approach offers an alternative to existing methods based on tilting and angular offsets for the conditioned launch problem.

Journal Title

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volume

19

Issue/Number

5

Publication Date

1-1-2001

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

753

Last Page

758

WOS Identifier

WOS:000168732400019

ISSN

0733-8724

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