Coupling efficiency, optical

Lasers can be coupled efficiently to fiber optic devices to deHver intense monochromatic light precisely to the desired region of the body, including internal organs (see Fiber optics). As in other cases of laser-induced photochemistry, biphotonic effects may be important (87). Lasers also offer the advantage of being able to concentrate the incident energy in a spectral bandpass matched to the absorption band of the sensitizer. 

This first step makes necessary a correction of the atmosphere aberrations by means of an adaptive optics or at the minimum a tip tilt device. If the turbulence induces high aberrations the coupling efficiency is decreased by a factor VN where N is the number of spatial modes of the input beam. Note that tilt correction is also mandatory in a space mission as long as instabilities of the mission platform may induce pointing errors. Figure 10 (left) illustrates the spatial filtering operation. This function allows a very good calibration of... 

Figure 10. Left Monomode optical fibre acts as a spatial filter. The coupling efficiency is 1/N where N is the input beam number of modes. Right Using a wavefront corrector the coupling efficiency is significant and quite stable (K band CFHT/ GHANA) (Perrin et al., 2000).

Fig. 13.16 (a) Experiment on detection of atomic clouds with an MNF. APD is the avalanche photodiode. MOT is the magneto optical trap, (b) Coupling efficiency of spontaneous emission into each direction of nanofiber propagation mode, tyg, vs. atom position rla, where r and a are distance from nanofiber axis and radius of nanofiber, respectively. Reprinted from Ref. 21 with permission. 2008 Optical Society of America... 

An efficient optical coupling to the WGMs is instrumental in order to harvest the full potential of the high-2 droplet resonators. In most reported experiments, the droplet resonators are probed by free-space excitation, where, e.g., a Gaussian laser beam excites resonator modes and scattered light or fluorescence is detected. This approach... 

Atomic techniques such as atomic absorption spectrometry (AA), inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES), and inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), have been widely used in the pharmaceutical industry for metal analysis.190-192 A content uniformity analysis of a calcium salt API tablet formulation by ICP-AES exhibited significantly improved efficiency and fast analysis time (1 min per sample) compared to an HPLC method.193... 

In a somewhat similar fashion, Ishii et alP- have demonstrated inkjet fabrication of polymeric microlenses for optical chip packaging. UV curable epoxy resin is deposited onto optical devices by inkjet printing. When the droplets hit the surface, they form into partial spheres due to their surface tension, and are UV-cured to form the microlens with diameters from 20 to 40 tm with /-numbers of 1.0 to 11.0. Their uniformity in a microlens array was measured to be within 1% in diameter and 3 tm in pitch (total count of 36 lenses). They have also demonstrated hybrid integration of inkjetted microlenses with a wire-bonded vertical-cavity-surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) with coupling efficiencies of 4 dB higher than without the microlens. 

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