single mode fiber

  • 12 April 2021
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Dear Zemax team,


I would need to model a single mode fiber with a 9 micron core and a NA 0.22 in a non sequential design. I envisioned to use a source Gaussian with beam size of 4.5e-3 mm, but I cannot understand the meaning of the Position parameter and I cannot figure out to which value I should set it in order to reproduce a 0.22 beam. Could you please help me with this?


Thanks


Best regards


Gabriele


 


 


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Hi Gabriele,


The position parameter sets the distance between the location of your source, and the virtual point source from which the rays appear to emanate. Something like this sketch:



Since you know the Numerical Aperture and the Size of the Beam, you can calculate Theta and the position distance Numerical aperture - Wikipedia


 

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Dear Berta thanks a lot for your help.


Excellent.


Best regards


Gabriele


 

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