Abstract
A low-cost polymer-based structure is proposed to improve the coupling between a fiber end section and photodetector active surface in optical links based on standard single-mode fiber (SSMF), which employs vertical cavity surface emitting lasers operating at 850 nm, i.e., below the SSMF cutoff wavelength. Considering receivers as small-area detectors, which are generally necessary to guarantee high-speed operation but at the same time are particularly subject to power fluctuations due to modal noise (whose impact is in turn enhanced in the presence of fiber-to-photodetector misalignment), significant achievements are demonstrated by employing the presented structure. Indeed, in the presence of a misalignment of $ \pm 4 $ to $ \pm 6\;{\unicode{x00B5}{\rm m}} $, which is nowadays typically achievable, the relative optical power fluctuations due to modal noise reduce in the presented case more than four times (2.5% from more than 10%) with respect to the case of butt-coupling, which implies an increase of the same factor in the output signal-to-noise ratio at the receiver end.
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