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Light Coupling and Passive Optical Devices

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In electrical circuits, passive components refer to resistors, capacitors, and inductors; elements that overall consume power. On the other hand, active components deliver power to a system. In fiber optic systems, passive components typically refer to those that are not involved in opto-electric conversion, i.e., they neither generate nor detect light. Instead they are involved in guiding or manipulating the light without adding energy to it.

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    See Chapter 5 for a discussion on numerical aperture and guided modes in a fiber.

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    Of course, in realty, any finite size column of light traveling in free space will eventually diffract.

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