Design optical antenna and fiber coupling system based on the vector theory of reflection and refraction

Opt Express. 2015 Oct 5;23(20):26104-12. doi: 10.1364/OE.23.026104.

Abstract

A Cassegrain antenna system and an optical fiber coupling system which consists of a plano-concave lens and a plano-convex lens are designed based on the vector theory of reflection and refraction, so as to improve the transmission performance of the optical antenna and fiber coupling system. Three-dimensional ray tracing simulation are performed and results of the optical aberrations calculation and the experimental test show that the aberrations caused by on-axial defocusing, off-axial defocusing and deflection of receiving antenna can be well corrected by the optical fiber coupling system.