Arbitrary shaped microlens array laser sintered on glass sheets.

A new technique based on laser vitrification of cordierite ceramic powders is used to fabricate arbitrarily shaped microlens arrays on a glass substrate. Crack-free semispherical and quasi-spherical lenses with good optical and surface quality are demonstrated.

Analysis of distributed-feedback lasers with fractionally organized gratings.

We analyze the performance of distributed-feedback lasers with special grating structures. These grating structures consist of subgratings with different lengths (that are integer multiples of a reference length) and/or different phase shifts (that are also integer multiples of a reference phase shift). These grating structures can provide transmission peaks with high quality factors, which may be useful for distributed-feedback lasers.

Analysis of strategies to improve the directionality of square lattice band-edge photonic crystal structures.

Recently, photonic crystal band-edge structures have been analyzed in the literature. However, most devices that have been presented so far emit light in different directions. We present a modal analysis (no gain included) of a few schemes to improve the directionality of these devices, i.

Dispersion characteristics of segmented optical fibers.

A direct scalar two-dimensional routine based on the method of lines is implemented to analyze the dispersion characteristics of segmented fibers. In this kind of structure, dispersion control in a simple profile is achieved by variations in the filling ratio of the coaxiallike structure.