Re: How can I couple the infrared light from an ordinary bulb into a single mode fibre?

From: Johannes Swartling (johannes.swartling_at_home.se)
Date: 03/18/05 

Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 15:33:20 -0000

"Alu" <alucard1231@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1111141604.537321.50860@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Thank you for all of your replies. Actually, I want couple the light,
> with the wavelengths from 1200nm to 1600nm, into a G652 fibre. But the
> ordinary LED's bandwidth is not that wide. So if I don't use multiple
> LEDs to cover the range, how can I do it? Thank you.

If you've got the money, generate a supercontinuum in a photonic crystal
fiber.

www.crystal-fibre.com

The fiber itself is only a couple of hundred in any major currency but you
need a femto- or picosecond laser.

Johannes

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