GEOMETRICAL APPROACH TO BACKSCATTERING FROM A SIDE-ILLUMINATED OPTICAL-FIBER

Authors
FERRARI JA FRINS E LEZAMA A
Citation
Ja. Ferrari et al., GEOMETRICAL APPROACH TO BACKSCATTERING FROM A SIDE-ILLUMINATED OPTICAL-FIBER, Optics communications, 113(1-3), 1994, pp. 46-52
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Optics communications → ACNP
ISSN journal
00304018
Volume
113
Issue
1-3
Year of publication
1994
Pages
46 - 52
Database
ISI
SICI code
0030-4018(1994)113:1-3<46:GATBFA>2.0.ZU;2-D
Abstract
A geometrical optics approach to scattering from an optical fiber side -illuminated by a laser beam at oblique incidence is presented. Our ap proach describes the interference pattern appearing in a region center ed at a scattering angle of 180 degrees from the direction of the inci dent beam. It will be shown that there exists a critical incidence ang le for which a bright spot in the pattern of backscattered light arise s.