Solution of mode coupling in step-index optical fibers by the fokker-planck equation and the langevin equation

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 15, 2002, Pages 2826-2830

  Savović, Svetislav ^a   Djordjevich, Alexandar ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DIFFUSION; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; MULTIMODE FIBERS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; RANDOM PROCESSES; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

LANGEVIN FORCES; POWER-FLOW EQUATIONS; STEP-INDEX OPTICAL FIBERS;

OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING;

EID: 0037140624     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.002826     Document Type: Article

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