Promising results of various coupling experiments between laser diodes and single-mode
fibers to determine the optimum coupling method are reported. The cylindrical lens method …

Fabrication methods for low drive voltage and broad-band LiNbO 3 waveguide directional
coupler optical modulator are described. Optical waveguides were prepared by …

Over the last twenty years there has been tremendous growth in the research and
development of sensors and sensor signal processing methods. Advances in materials and …

A hemispherical microlens is fabricated on the end of a single-mode fiber by an electric arc
discharge technique. It improves coupling efficiency between InGaAsP lasers with buried …

Simple conical microlenses are fabricated on the end of a vapor-axial-deposition single-
mode fiber to increase the coupling efficiency between the laser diode and the single-mode …

The design of zero-dispersion single-mode silica fibre in the ultimate-minimum-loss
wavelength region of the 1.5? m wavelength is presented; the method used is the mutual …

Wavelength dispersion characteristics of single-mode silica fibers in a very low-loss region,
including zero dispersion wavelengths, are studied in detail using a" difference method." …

Single-mode optical fiber transmission technology in the 1.0-1.8-μ m wavelength region is
reviewed. Owing to low fiber loss in the spectral region and to wide-band single-mode fiber …

Publisher Summary This chapter concentrates on photodetectors for optical
communications, and the choice of the detector and the detection scheme is determined by …

Widely tunable single-mode picosecond pulses have been obtained from a buried optical
guide AIGaAs semiconductor laser operated with external grating feedback. Intensity …