Highly efficient lens couplers for laser-diodes based on long period grating in special graded-index fiber |
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Authors: | Galina Nemova Raman Kashyap |
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Affiliation: | Department of Engineering Physics, Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, C.P. 6079, succ.Centre-ville, Montréal, Canada H3C 3A7 |
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Abstract: | A theoretical scheme of a new device consisting of a lensed fiber and a long period grating (LPG) imprinted in a special single mode gradient-index fiber (SSMGIF) is presented. The SSMGIF consists of the single mode uniform core and the graded-index cladding. The performance of the proposed device is based on specific properties of SSMGIF. For high efficiency coupling between number of cladding modes and co-propagating core mode in this special type of the fiber we can use a number of weak LPGs with the same amplitudes of the refractive index modulation and with almost the same lengths. This scheme provides higher coupling efficiency, relaxed longitudinal alignment tolerance, and smaller device size, than an identical scheme with the LPG imprinted in a step-index (SI) fiber. Two different types of fiber lenses (hemispherical and hyperbolic) are presented for comparison. |
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