Title :
Radiation from curved single-mode fibres
Author :
Gambling, W.A. ; Payne, David N. ; Matsumura, Hiroshi
Author_Institution :
University of Southampton, Department of Electronics, Southampton, UK
Abstract :
A study of propagation in curved single-mode fibres shows that the transmission loss increases sharply below a critical bend radius. However the radiation does not leak away uniformly with distance but in a series of discrete well-defined rays.
Keywords :
fibre optics; guided light propagation; losses; optical waveguide theory; critical bend radius; curved single mode fibres; transmission loss;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19760431
