title: Silver-halide fiber tip as a beam homogenizer for infrared hollow waveguides.
abstract: A beam-homogenizing device consisting of a short tip of silver-halide infrared fiber eliminates the low-order multimode effect generated by bending of hollow guides. A series of experiments with a CO(2) laser shows that the solid fiber functions as a homogenizer with a small insertion loss of 0.2dB.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Matsuura
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Miyagi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: German
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Nagli
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Katzir