OSA's Digital Library

Optics Express

Optics Express

  • Editor: Michael Duncan
  • Vol. 13, Iss. 17 — Aug. 22, 2005
  • pp: 6527–6540

Optics InfoBase > Optics Express > Volume 13 > Issue 17 > Page 6527

Coupling starlight into single-mode photonic crystal fiber using a field lens

Jason Corbett and Jeremy Allington-Smith  »View Author Affiliations


Optics Express, Vol. 13, Issue 17, pp. 6527-6540 (2005)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OPEX.13.006527


View Full Text Article

Enhanced HTML    Acrobat PDF (390 KB)


Advanced Search

Browse Journals / Lookup Meetings

Browse by Journal and Year


   


Lookup Conference Papers

Close Browse Journals / Lookup Meetings

Article Tools

Share
Citations

Abstract

We determine the coupling characteristics of a large mode area (LMA) photonic crystal, single-mode fiber when fed with an on-axis field lens used to place an image of the telescope exit pupil at the fiber input. The maximum field of view is found to be approximately the same as that of feeding the fiber directly with the telescope PSF in the image plane. However, the field lens feed can be used to provide a flat, maximised coupling response over the entire visible-NIR which is not possible using either the highly wavelength dependent direct feed coupling to the LMA fiber or the attenuation spectrum limited step index fiber cases.

© 2005 Optical Society of America

OCIS Codes
(060.2430) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fibers, single-mode
(100.2960) Image processing : Image analysis
(120.3180) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Interferometry
(350.1260) Other areas of optics : Astronomical optics

ToC Category:
Research Papers

History
Original Manuscript: June 27, 2005
Revised Manuscript: August 11, 2005
Published: August 22, 2005

Citation
Jason Corbett and Jeremy Allington-Smith, "Coupling starlight into single-mode photonic crystal fiber using a field lens," Opt. Express 13, 6527-6540 (2005)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-13-17-6527


Sort:  Journal  |  Reset  

References

  1. T. Birks, J. Knight and P St. J Russell, �??Endlessly single-mode photonic crystal fiber,�?? Opt. Lett., 22 p 961-963 (1997) [CrossRef] [PubMed]
  2. E.G. Neumann, Single-Mode Fibers �?? Fundamentals, (Springer-Verlag, 1988)
  3. A. Bjarklev, J. Broeng, A.S. Bjarklev, Photonic crystal fibers, (Kluwer, 2003) [CrossRef]
  4. Coude de Foresto, V. Ridgway S., Mariotti J.M, �??Deriving object visibilities from interferograms obtained with a fiber stellar interferometer,�??A&AS 121 379 (1997)
  5. G. Perrin, O. Lai, P. J. Lena, and V. Coude du Foresto, �??Fibered large interferometer on top of Mauna Kea: OHANA, the Optical Hawaiian Array for Nanoradian Astronomy,�?? in Interferometry in Optical Astronomy, P. J. Lena and A. Quirrenbach, eds., Proc. SPIE 4006, 708�??714 (2000). [CrossRef]
  6. M.D. Nielson, J.R. Folkenberg, N.A. Mortenson and A. Bjarklev, �??Bandwidth comparison of photonic crystal fibers and conventional single-mode fibers,�?? Opt. Express 12, 430 (2004) <a href="http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?URI=OPEX-12-3-430">http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?URI=OPEX-12-3-430</a> [CrossRef]
  7. M.D. Nielsen, N.A. Mortensen, M. Albersen, J.R. Folkenberg, A. Bjarklev, D. Bonacinni, �??Predicting macrobending loss for large-mode area photonic crystal fibers,�?? Opt. Express 12, 1775 (2004) <a href="http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?URI=OPEX-12-8-1775">http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?URI=OPEX-12-8-1775</a> [CrossRef] [PubMed]
  8. A.W. Snyder and J.D. Love, Optical waveguide Theory, (Chapman/Kluwer, 1983/ 2000)
  9. Joseph W Goodman, Introduction to Fourier Optics, (McGraw-Hill, 1996)
  10. T.P. White, B.T. Kuhlmey, R.C. McPhedran, D. Maystre, G. Renversez, C. Martijn de Sterke, L.C. Botton, �??Multipole method for microstructured optical fiber. I Formulation,�?? J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 19 , No 10 (2002) [CrossRef]
  11. B.T. Kuhlmey, T.P. White, G. Renversez, D. Maystre, L.C. Botton, C. Martijn de Sterke, R.C. McPhedran, �??Multipole method for microstructured optical fiber. II Implementation and Results,�?? J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 19, No 10 (2002) [CrossRef]
  12. M.J Steel, T.P White, C. Martijn de Sterke, R.C. McPhedran, L.C. Botton, �??Symmetry and degeneracy in microstructered optical fibers,�?? Opt. Lett. 26 No.8 (2001). [CrossRef]
  13. D.T. Liu, B.M. Levine & M. Shao, �??Design and fabrication of a coherent array of single-mode optical fibers for the nulling coronograph,�?? Proc. SPIE 5170 Techniques and Instrumentation for detection of exoplanets. (2003)
  14. N.A. Mortensen and J.R. Folkenberg, �??Near-field to far-field transition of photonic crystal fibers: symmetries and interference phenomena,�?? Opt. Express 10, 475 (2002). <a href="http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?URI=OPEX-10-11-475">http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?URI=OPEX-10-11-475</a> [PubMed]
  15. Born and Wolf, Principles of optics 7th edition, (Cambridge University Press).
  16. A. Snyder, �??Excititation and scattering of modes on a dielectric optical fiber,�?? IEEE Trans. MTT V NIT-17 No.12 (1969)
  17. Equation (8) actually underestimates slightly �? < 0.40 for >f/4 and λ0 > 1000nm when coupling into the LMA-8 fiber however no simple model can account for the actual variation and direct recourse to Eq. (1) and (6) is required.
  18. Olivier Guyon, �??Wide-field interferometric imaging with single-mode fibers,�?? A&A 387, 366-378 (2002)

Cited By

 Alert me when this paper is cited

OSA is able to provide readers links to articles that cite this paper by participating in CrossRef's Cited-By Linking service. CrossRef includes content from more than 3000 publishers and societies. In addition to listing OSA journal articles that cite this paper, citing articles from other participating publishers will also be listed.


« Previous Article  |  Next Article »

OSA is a member of CrossRef.

CrossCheck Deposited