DocumentCode
954742
Title
Adiabatic method for fibres with nonseparable index profiles
Author
Barthelemy, A. ; Arnaud, Jerome
Author_Institution
Université de Limoges, Laboratoire d´Electronique des Microondes, CNRS ERA 535 and GRECO 11, Limoges, France
Volume
16
Issue
5
fYear
1980
Firstpage
193
Lastpage
195
Abstract
A new powerful numerical technique is proposed that quickly gives the propagation constants, group velocities and caustics of modes with specified numbers in multimode fibres of arbitrary 2-dimensional index profiles. This method is based on the adiabatic approximation of ray optics.
Keywords
geometrical optics; optical fibres; optical waveguide theory; adiabatic approximation; group velocities; mode caustics; multimode optical fibres; nonseparable index profiles; propagation constants; ray optics;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electronics Letters
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0013-5194
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/el:19800139
Filename
4243935
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