USE OF PRINCIPAL MODE NUMBERS IN THE THEORY OF MICROBENDING

Jacques Arnaud

28/09/1978

Electronics Letters, Volume 14, Issue 20, 28 September 1978, p. 663 – 664

ABSTRACT

The modal theories of microbending that have been proposed so far postulate that modes that have the same principal mode number carry the same optical power. This assumption is shown to be incorrect. The exact result is given.

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