Couplingefficiency.pptVIP

Radiance (Brightness) of the source B= Optical power radiated from a unit area of the source into a unit solid angle [watts/(square centimeter per stradian)] Surface emitting LEDs have a Lambertian pattern: Edge emitting LEDs and laser diodes radiation pattern Power Coupled from source to the fiber Power coupled from LED to the Fiber Power coupling from LED to step-index fiber Total optical power from LED: Power coupling from LED to graded-index fiber Power coupled from the LED to the graded indexed fiber is given as If the medium between source and fiber is different from the core material with refractive index n, the power coupled into the fiber will be reduced by the factor Power Launching Vs Wavelength Optical power only depends on the radiance and not on the wavelength of the mode. For a graded index fiber number of modes is related to the wavelength as So twice as many modes propagate for 900 nm as compared to 1300 nm but the radiated power per mode from a source is So twice as much power is launched per mode for 1300nm as compared to the 900nm Equilibrium Numerical aperture For fibers with flylead attachments the connecting fiber should have the same NA. A certain amount of loss occurs at this junction which is almost 0.1 – 1dB. Exact loss depends on the connecting mechanism. Excess power loss occurs for few tens of meters of a multimode fiber as the launched modes come to the equilibrium. The excess power loss is due to the non propagating modes The loss is more important for SLED. Fiber coupled lasers are less prone to this effect as they have very few non propagating modes. The optical power in the fiber scales as Equilibrium Numerical Aperture Non Imaging Microsphere Use for surface emitter is shown Assumptions: refractive indices shown in the fig. and emitting area is circular To collimate the output from the LED, the emitting surface should be located at the focal point of the lens which can be found as Where s and q are object and imag