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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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Berta.Bernad
Zemax Staff
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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