Propagation of light trapped within a set of lowest-order modes of graded-index multimode fiber undergoing bending

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 13, 2000, Pages 2029-2037

  Asawa, Charles K ^a   Taylor, Henry F ^b  

^a MJC Optics   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MULTIMODE FIBERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

IMAGE INTENSITY LEVELS;

GRADIENT INDEX OPTICS;

EID: 0000104761     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.002029     Document Type: Article

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