Thurlow et al., 1994 - Google Patents

Semiconductor laser array to fibre array coupling via diffractive microlenses

Thurlow et al., 1994

Document ID
10633292729683339700
Author
Thurlow A
Collins J
McKee P
Towers J
Publication year
Publication venue
IEE Colloquium on Microengineering and Optics

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The authors have shown that there are considerable difficulties in forming satisfactory arrays of conventionally lensed fibres and that the traditional means of coupling single fibres to single devices are not practical for arrays. They have also shown how an array of Fresnel …
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