Coupling characteristic of tapered optical fiber based on ZEMAX

Author

Fu, Peng ; Zou, Yonggang ; Wang, Ling ; Yu, Fei ; Li, Jie ; Chen, Henan ; Ma, Xiaohui ; Sui, Qingxue ; Zhao, Wei ; Zhang, Zhimin

Author_Institution

Nat. Key Lab. on High-Power Semicond. Lasers, Changchun Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Changchun, China

fYear

2012

fDate

23-25 Aug. 2012

Firstpage

73

Lastpage

76

Abstract

The coupling application of tapered optical fiber and semiconductor laser has great practical value. The beam shaping effect of the tapered area is analyzed based on the principle of geometrical optics. The coupling model of the semiconductor laser and the tapered fiber is built with ZEMAX. The influence of the coupling efficiency caused by the different working distance between the source and the tapered fiber tip, and the variation of the end diameter of the tapered fiber are explored. The results are researched by the practical experiment.

Keywords

geometrical optics; optical fibre couplers; optical fibre theory; optical pulse shaping; semiconductor lasers; ZEMAX; beam shaping; coupling characteristics; coupling efficiency; coupling model; fibre end diameter; geometrical optics; semiconductor laser; tapered area; tapered optical fiber; working distance; Couplings; Fiber lasers; Laser beams; Laser modes; Optical fiber devices; Optical fibers; Semiconductor lasers; ZEMAX; coupling efficiency; semiconductor laser; tapered fiber;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optoelectronics and Microelectronics (ICOM), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Changchun, Jilin

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2638-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICoOM.2012.6316219

Filename

6316219