optical coupling

[′äp·tə·kəl ′kəp·liŋ]

(electronics)

Coupling between two circuits by means of a light beam or light pipe having transducers at opposite ends, to isolate the circuits electrically.

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OWB harnesses MEMS to enable hybrid optical integration of best-in-class technologies with high optical coupling efficiency, high parallelism, compactness, robustness, and low cost.

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Conventionally, efficiently transmitting optical signals between opto-electric converters and optical fiber (optical coupling) required an optical coupling unit that consisted of a lens component and an optical connector (Figure 3).

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All optical coupling is done via free-space micro-optics.

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Designed for 10G SONET, Ethernet and Fibre Channel communications, these new TOSAs and ROSAs can be ordered with either LC or SC receptacles that feature a fiber-to-laser design, which eliminates optical alignment problems and provides a fixed optical coupling.

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Designed as an adhesive or encapsulant for applications where optical clarity is important, this elastomer is said to be especially effective as an optical coupling agent or lens sealing compound.

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Aside from efforts on optical fiber handling, gold/tin soldering, optical coupling and alignment, as well as some product specific developments, a major emphasis of the program is the use of adhesives in optoelectronics packaging.

Optoelectronics development: with the surge of optoelectronics packaging, component alignment issues need to be resolved

The theory which underlies our calculation of the spectrum involves three major pieces: the ground state wavefunctions, the excited state wavefunctions and the molecular Rabi matrix which gives the optical coupling between them.

A spectroscopic determination of scattering lengths for sodium atom collisions

Here we discuss the Hartman interferometer, a proprietary integrated optic interferometer [19] that uses a single planar wave of linearly polarized light, thereby greatly simplifying optical coupling and signal processing.

Hartman interferometer: versatile integrated optic sensor for label-free, real-time quantification of nucleic acids, proteins, and pathogens

Lithographically-defined waveguides on large area substrates and an optical equipment practice are needed to allow self-aligned multiple optical coupling and high interconnection densities.

The future of photonic switching

iv) Off-chip bandwidth will be enabled through low-cost and low-loss passive optical coupling to silicon photonic wave guides.

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