Title :
Attenuation characteristics of multimode optical fibre with lossy cladding and lossy jacket
Author_Institution :
Private Address, St. Helens, UK
Abstract :
A perturbation method has been used to calculate the attenuation coefficients in the cladding and in the jacket of all modes. Numerical results clearly show the increase of cladding attenuation with characteristic angle and the decrease of jacket attenuation with increasing cladding.
Keywords :
fibre optics; optical waveguide theory; attenuation coefficients; lossy cladding; lossy jacket; multimode optical fibre; perturbation method;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19750406
