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3.1.7 Beam propagation in optical systems |
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3.1.7.5.2 Mode matching for beam coupling into waveguides
The calculation of the excitation coe cient of an eigenmode in a waveguide (output mode) by the incident mode (input mode) at the surface of the waveguide is described in Table 3.1.24.
This task occurs
–if a laser beam is formed by an optical system and coupled afterwards into an optical fiber,
–if a laser beam of a master oscillator is to be coupled into a power amplifier,
–in the case of waveguide-waveguide coupling especially fiber-fiber coupling or coupling between semiconductor lasers.
Solutions are available in commercial optical design programs.
Table 3.1.24. Definitions for waveguide coupling.
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Fig. 3.1.44. Mode matching. |
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Asked: Part of power transmitted into the waveguide (fiber, laser, integrated optical waveguide).
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E ective antireflection layers are assumed to be on the waveguide.
3.1.7.5.3 Free-space coupling of Gaussian modes
For the case that a Gaussian output waist of a source waveguide and a Gaussian input waist of a receiver waveguide are separated by air, the coupling of both waveguides is generally treated in [64Kog]. Higher-order modes are also included. The approximation of small misalignments (o set and tilt) is given in Table 3.1.25, large o sets and tilts are treated in [64Kog, 91Wu].
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Table 3.1.25. Coupling of waveguides . |
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Fig. 3.1.45. Coupling of Gaussian beams. w 0 I and w 0 O: beam waist radii for WG1 and WG2, respectively; w I and w O : beam radii in the coupling plane; R I and R O: curvature radii of the beam wavefronts in the coupling plane; k = 2 π/λ ; λ : the wavelength of light; ∆ x : the lateral o set between the waveguides; ψ : the tilt of the axis.
Asked : The e ciency of the excitation of the modes in WG2, here the fundamental mode 00.
η 00−00 = 1 for ∆ x = ψ = 0 and the exact beam radii and curvature fitting w I = w O and R I = R O , otherwise
η 00−00 < 1 .
Equation (3.1.137) contains the approximations:
–Gaussian beams (paraxial optics).
–Right-hand side of (3.1.137): 2nd and 3rd term 1st term.
About coupling coe cients for higher-order modes and without the approximation: see [64Kog]; on couplings with Hermite-Gaussian modes and Laguerre-Gaussian modes: see [94Kri, 80Gra].
3.1.7.5.4 Laser fiber coupling
Methods of treatment:
–Launching of fundamental-mode laser radiation into the fundamental mode of a single-mode fiber:
–Calculation of the overlap integral (3.1.134) for a Gaussian mode and the mode field for di erent fiber cross sections: see [88Neu, p. 179], [80Gra].
–Approximation of the exact fiber fundamental modes by a Gaussian field distribution (see [88Neu, pp. 68]) and the application of the waist transformation from laser via an optical system with the methods of Sects. 3.1.7.2–3.1.7.4 and calculation of the overlap integral equation (3.1.134) or mode-coupling equation (3.1.137) [91Wu].
–Launching of fundamental-mode laser radiation or multimode laser radiation or incoherent light sources into multimode fibers:
–Overlap integral techniques in the framework of partial coherence theory: see [87Hil].
–Geometric optical methods (ray tracing and phase space techniques): see [90Gec, 95Sny, 91Gra, 91Wu, 01I ].
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3.1.7 Beam propagation in optical systems |
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–Inclusion of the aberrations and stops of the optical system used:
–Monomodal and partial coherent case: calculation of the wave aberrations of the optical system by ray-tracing methods and inclusion of these aberrations into the overlap integral: see [82Wag, 95Gae, 89Hil, 99Gue].
–Ray-tracing methods are adequate for stops and aberrations, but not reliable for a few mode waveguides: rough design [01I ]: the spot diagram of the ray tracing in the fiber facet should be within the core area and the angles of incidence should be smaller then the aperture angle [88Neu] of the fiber.