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Finite-element modal analysis of large-core multimode optical fibers
Masashi Eguchi1, Suguru Horinouchi
1Chitose Institute of Science and Technology, Chitose, Hokkaido 066-8655, Japan. megu@paical.spub.chitose.ac.jp
Abstract:
Plastic optical fibers that are a typical large-core multimode optical fiber support a great number of modes compared with conventional silica-glass multimode optical fibers. So far the WKB method hasbeen used for most of the modal analyses of these fibers because of a great number of guided modes. We describe the accurate eigenmodal analysis of large-core multimode optical fibers with the finite-element method (FEM) and compute the propagation constants of all LP modes. In addition, the FEM has a strong advantage for arbitrary core profiles whereas the WKB method is not suitable fornonmonotonic profiles. To demonstrate the advantage, we apply the FEM to the fiber having sinusoidal fluctuations.