N. Kishi et al., MODAL-ANALYSIS OF OPTICAL FIBERS WITH SYMMETRICALLY DISTRIBUTED NONUNIFORM CORES, Journal of lightwave technology, 14(8), 1996, pp. 1794-1800
This paper describes the modal analysis of optical fibers with symmetr
ically distributed multiple cores. Each core has an identical, axially
symmetrical, and nonuniform refractive index profile. Group theoretic
al approach is applied to treat the symmetry of the waveguide structur
e. The point-matching method combined with the staircase-approximation
method is used to take into account complex boundary conditions and c
omplex refractive index distributions. The numerical computation based
on this approach has been found to be very effective.