Passive alignment of a tapered laser with more than 50% coupling efficiency

1 January 1995

journal article
Published by Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in Electronics Letters

Vol. 31 (9), 730-731
https://doi.org/10.1049/el:19950508

Abstract

Coupling efficiencies of >50% have been obtained by passively aligning precision-cleaved large-spot-sized lasers to singlemode fibre on a silicon micromachined substrate. This is the highest known coupling figure reported for passive alignment.

Keywords

TAPERED LASER
50 PERCENT
SINGLEMODE FIBRE
SI MICROMACHINED SUBSTRATE
LARGE-SPOT-SIZED LASERS
PRECISION-CLEAVED LASERS
PASSIVE ALIGNMENT
COUPLING EFFICIENCY
LASER PACKAGES

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

InGaAsP/InP tapered active layer multiquantum well laser with 1.8 dB coupling loss to cleaved singlemode fibre
Electronics Letters, 1994
1.56 [micro sign]m InGaAsP/InP tapered active layer multiquantum well laser with improved coupling to cleaved singlemode fibre
Electronics Letters, 1994

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