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9 February 1989 A New Gradient-Index Rod Lens For High Efficiency LD-SMF Coupling
K. Kakimoto, H. Honmou, K. Kaede
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Abstract
The radial gradient-index(RGI) glass rod lens system has been studied for semiconductor laser diode (LD) to single mode fiber (SMF) optical power coupling. Already a high performance piano-convex singlet lens system was developed and reported.(1) This time, a new RGI doublet lens system composed of a plano-convex lens and a plano-plano lens has been developed. This new system has wide alignment tolerances compared with the singlet lens system. This new system has about 2dB loss reduction, compared with a conventional one under mass production (at wavelengths of λ = 1.3µm, 1.55µm.
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K. Kakimoto, H. Honmou, and K. Kaede "A New Gradient-Index Rod Lens For High Efficiency LD-SMF Coupling", Proc. SPIE 0994, Optoelectronic Materials, Devices, Packaging, and Interconnects II, (9 February 1989); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.960105
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KEYWORDS
Single mode fibers

Tolerancing

Lens design

Wavefront aberrations

Telecommunications

Glasses

Gradient-index optics

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