Analysis of fibers with elliptical cross section

Author

Conradi, Olaf ; Pregla, Reinhold

Author_Institution

Allgemeeine und Theor. Elektrotech., Fern Univ., Hagen, Germany

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

12

Lastpage

15

Abstract

The analysis of polarization and propagation effects in optical fibers with elliptical deformed cross section is an important issue of fiber communication. Especially, the investigation of group velocity and group index in such deformed fibers are necessary. For that reason a method to solve the full vectorial wave equation in an elliptical coordinate system is presented. The analysis is done by the method of lines where the wave equation is derived from the generalized transmission line equations. The solutions are obtained by one dimensional discretization and by introducing Fourier expansions in the wave equation. Results are presented for dielectric elliptical waveguides with different eccentricities

Keywords

dielectric waveguides; light velocity; method of lines; optical fibre polarisation; optical fibre theory; optical fibres; wave equations; 1D discretization; Fourier expansions; dielectric elliptical waveguides; elliptical coordinate system; elliptical deformed cross section; generalized transmission line equations; group index; group velocity; method of lines; numerical method; one dimensional discretization; optical fiber communication; optical fibers; polarization effects; propagation effects; vector wave equation; Azimuth; Optical computing; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Optical propagation; Optical waveguides; Partial differential equations; Refractive index; Transmission line theory;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2001. Proceedings of 2001 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cracow

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7096-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2001.934707

Filename

934707