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Optical power flow in plastic-clad silica fibers
Svetislav Savović1, Alexandar Djordjevich
1City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Hong Kong, China.
Applied Optics
|January 4, 2003
Abstract:
Using the time-independent power-flow equation, we have examined the mode coupling caused by intrinsic perturbation effects of step-index plastic clad silica fiber carrying more than 10(5) modes. Result show that the equilibrium mode distribution for this fiber is achieved at a length of approximate 550 m, which is longer than reported previously. While this coupling length is much longer than that of plastic optical fibers, it is sorter than that of all-glass fibers.