Chapter 2: Part I

Optical Fiber Transmission

Fiber cross section

Light propagation by repeated total internal reflections

Light propagation by repeated normal reflections

Numerical Aperture

Numerical Aperture

Discrete angles for ray propagation

Pulse broadening in multi-mode fibers

Pulse broadening in multi-mode fibers

Pulse broadening in multi-mode fibers

Graded-index profiles

Two different paths with the same transit time

A step-index fiber

Bessel functions

Modified Bessel functions

Normalized Propagation const. vs. normalized frequency

Left hand side and right hand side of the eigenvalue equation

LP01 mode

LP 02 mode

LP 11 mode

LP 22 mode