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In this chapter, the plan is to give a brief exposition of the most important aspects of propagation in optical fibers. Attention will be placed on understanding what kinds of fibers go together with what kinds of sources for what kinds of applications. The first section of the chapter contains a very brief historical overview. The second section contains solutions to both the hybrid and LP modal problems. A discussion of coupled polarization states in the end of this section contains an explanation of when the LP mode description can actually be a more accurate one than the hybrid mode description. Section three concentrates on explaining where the maxim “single mode lasers with single mode fibers, multi-mode lasers with multimode fibers” comes from, by presenting discussions of modal noise and of the coupling problem in the mode continuum and coherent coupling limits. The fourth section of the chapter is a discussion of dispersion and its relation to system performance.
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Mickelson, A.R. (1993). Optical Fibers. In: Guided Wave Optics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3106-7_5
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