• DocumentCode
    939952
  • 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
  • Volume
    12
  • Issue
    21
  • fYear
    1976
  • Firstpage
    567
  • Lastpage
    569
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19760431
  • Filename
    4240156
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=939952