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Article: Ball Lenses for Telecom & Datacom Applications
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Deposition Sciences, Inc. (DSI)
Ball lenses are an inexpensive, mechanically compact optical method for
collimating the output of an optical fiber or laser diode; they can also be used for
fiber-to-fiber, diode-to-fiber and fiber-to-detector coupling. However, despite
some inherent advantages and lower cost, widespread employment of ball
lenses in telecom and datacom applications has been limited by the difficulty in
depositing high performance anti-reflection (AR) coatings on them, and by some
common misperceptions about utility and availability of ball lenses versus other
alternatives such as gradient refractive index (GRIN) lenses and aspheric lenses.
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