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Exact ray paths in bent waveguides

1988; Optica Publishing Group; Volume: 27; Issue: 15 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1364/ao.27.003180

0003-6935

Ajoy Ghatak, Enakshi K. Sharma, Jacintha Kompella,

Optical Network Technologies

We present here the Lagrangian formalism for studying the ray paths in cylindrically symmetric media. We have used the analysis to obtain the exact ray paths in bent slabs as well as in bent fibers with a separable profile.