Abstract
In the geometrical limit, the transverse section of a fibre can be seen as a 2-dimensional billiard. In a circular fibre, ray trajectories are regular, whereas introducing a straight cut (see figure 1b) will induce complex dynamics of rays, which lead to a chaotic behaviour.
© 2000 IEEE
PDF ArticleMore Like This
David Payne
PL_1_1 The European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO/Europe) 2017
David Payne
PL_1_1 European Quantum Electronics Conference (EQEC) 2017
M. E. Fermann, B. C. Thomsen, V. I. Kruglov, J. M. Dudley, and J. D. Harvey
CTuM2 The European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO/Europe) 2000