FAST DIFFRACTION-LIMITED CYLINDRICAL MICROLENSES

被引:51
作者
SNYDER, JJ [1 ]
REICHERT, P [1 ]
BAER, TM [1 ]
机构
[1] SPECTRA PHYS LASER DIODE SYST,MT VIEW,CA 94043
来源
APPLIED OPTICS | 1991年 / 30卷 / 19期
关键词
MICROLENSES; MICROOPTICS; CYLINDRICAL LENSES; DIFFRACTION-LIMITED LENSES; CYLINDRICAL MICROLENSES; CYLINDRICAL MICROOPTICS; FIBER LENSES; LASER DIODE LENSES; LASER DIODE OPTICS; INTEGRATED OPTICS LENSES;
D O I
10.1364/AO.30.002743
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
We describe a technique for fabricating fast well-corrected cylindrical microlenses for applications such as collimating laser diodes and coupling light into and out of integrated optics devices. The lenses are produced by first grinding a glass preform to a desired cross-sectional shape and then heating and drawing the preform into a fiber of the desired diameter. The heating and drawing operations polish the glass surface and reduce the cross-sectional dimensions but maintain the cross-sectional shape. Diffraction-limited 220-mu-m focal length immersion lenses with numerical aperture > 0.6 have been demonstrated.
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页码:2743 / 2747
页数:5
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