Novel high-efficiency concentrator for optical fiber communication

Fumio Nakamaru; Yoshinori Matsumoto; Akimichi Nakazono

doi:10.1109/LPT.2002.1012396

Novel high-efficiency concentrator for optical fiber communication

Fumio Nakamaru, Yoshinori Matsumoto, Akimichi Nakazono

Department of Applied Physics and Physico-Informatics

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Abstract

A novel high-efficiency concentrator based on nonimaging optics has been designed and fabricated with micromachining technique. The shape of the concentrator utilizes compound parabolic concentrator (CPC), which can concentrate the all rays that have the angles less than a critical angle θ_c. The theoretical concentration efficiency was calculated by ray trace simulation considering the reflectance of the concentrator's reflective layer. The metal reflection layer of reflectance 95% was formed by Gold-Nickel mirror plating method in a glass hole. As a result, the concentration efficiency of the concentrator was measured as 89%.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	953-955
Number of pages	3
Journal	IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume	14
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2002.1012396
Publication status	Published - 2002 Jul

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Keywords

CPC
Nonimaging optics
Optical transceiver
Plastic optical fiber
Ray trace simulation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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Nakamaru, F., Matsumoto, Y., & Nakazono, A. (2002). Novel high-efficiency concentrator for optical fiber communication. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 14(7), 953-955. https://doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2002.1012396

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