Module 4: Optical Fibers
Outline

August 31, 1994

1. Optical Fibers as Open-Boundary Waveguides
   1. Setting up Maxwell's equations.
   2. Deriving the Propagation Constant.
   3. Parameters Describing Fields in Optical Fibers.
   4. Weakly Guided Modes.
2. Propagation in Optical Fibers
   1. Step and Graded Index Fibers.
   2. Quantifying Dispersion.
   3. Quantifying Attenuation.
      

References:

G. Keiser, Optical Fiber Communications, McGraw-Hill, 1991. Ch. 1,2,3.

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