Abstract:
Fiber Bragg gratings of low reflectivity are given a squared reflectivity function in the form of a tophat configuration having a flat top and lacking undesirable side lobes. Such a reflectivity function for a fiber Bragg grating is achieved by interfering a diffracted beam with a plane wavefront beam so as to impose a sinc function on the resulting interference pattern that imprints the grating on an optical fiber.
Abstract:
To couple the elliptical mode field light beam of a laser radiation source to a circularly symmetric single-mode optical fiber, the end of the fiber is provided with an anamorphic lens. The double wedge-shaped lens provides high coupling efficiency and is easily constructed. Other anamorphic lenses are also disclosed. A single wedge lens can provide high coupling efficiency if it is formed on the end of a coupling fiber which has a core that is elliptically-shaped in cross-section, the line of intersection of the two surfaces forming the lens being aligned with the major axis of the elliptical fiber core.