TY - JOUR
T1 - Novel high-efficiency concentrator for optical fiber communication
AU - Nakamaru, Fumio
AU - Matsumoto, Yoshinori
AU - Nakazono, Akimichi
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received November 7, 2001; revised March 4, 2002. This work was supported in part by the Murata Science Foundation, Japan. The authors are with the Department of Applied Physics and Physico-Informatics, Keio University, 223-8522 Yokohama, Japan (e-mail: f_naka@appi.keio.ac.jp). Publisher Item Identifier S 1041-1135(02)04614-1.
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PY - 2002/7
Y1 - 2002/7
N2 - 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 θc. 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%.
AB - 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 θc. 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%.
KW - CPC
KW - Nonimaging optics
KW - Optical transceiver
KW - Plastic optical fiber
KW - Ray trace simulation
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U2 - 10.1109/LPT.2002.1012396
DO - 10.1109/LPT.2002.1012396
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0036649015
VL - 14
SP - 953
EP - 955
JO - IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
JF - IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
SN - 1041-1135
IS - 7
ER -