Computational studies of light acceptance and propagation in straight and curved multimodal active fibres

Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 239-249

  Achenbach, C P ^a   Cobb, J H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fibre optics; Geometrical optics; Losses; Propagation; Ray tracing; Scattering; Wave fronts

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARTICLE DETECTORS; PHOTONS; RAY TRACING; WAVEFRONTS;

LIGHT RAYS; MERIDIONAL RAYS; MULTIMODAL ACTIVE FIBRES; RAY OPTICS; SKEW RAYS;

MULTIMODE FIBERS;

EID: 0038579566     PISSN: 14644258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4258/5/3/316     Document Type: Article

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