Lensed taper coupler for hollow waveguides

Hajime Hiraga; Yuji Matsuura; You Wang; Yuji Kato; Mitsunobu Miyagi; Shin Ichi Abe; Shinji Onodera

doi:10.1117/12.271026

Lensed taper coupler for hollow waveguides

Hajime Hiraga, Yuji Matsuura, You Wang, Yuji Kato, Mitsunobu Miyagi, Shin Ichi Abe, Shinji Onodera

MEN - Biomedical Engineering

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Abstract

A launching coupler for hollow fibers consisting of a convex lens and a tapered hollow-guide piece is proposed. We fabricated the coupler which has a conical-tapered, Pyrex glass tube as the tapered section. The bore size of the taper-guide's input end is 3 mm and the output end is 0.7 mm which is the same as the size of coupled hollow fibers. The results of preliminary experiments show that the launching system has a large tolerance for the coupling condition between laser light and hollow fibers.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	47-50
Number of pages	4
Journal	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	2977
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.271026
Publication status	Published - 1997 Dec 1
Event	Specialty Fiber Optics for Biomedical and Industrial Applications - San Jose, CA, United States Duration: 1997 Feb 10 → 1997 Feb 10

Keywords

Hollow waveguides
Infrared lasers
Power delivery

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Computer Science Applications
Applied Mathematics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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