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 has been 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 for nonmonotonic profiles. To demonstrate the advantage, we apply the FEM to the fiber having sinusoidal fluctuations.
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Masashi Eguchi and Suguru Horinouchi, "Finite-element modal analysis of large-core multimode optical fibers: erratum," Appl. Opt. 43, 3158-3158 (2004)https://opg.optica.org/ao/abstract.cfm?uri=ao-43-15-3158
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