Guided ray

A guided ray (also bound ray or trapped ray) is a ray of light in a multimode optical fiber, which is confined by the core. For step index fiber, light entering the fiber will be guided if it falls within the acceptance cone of the fiber, that is if it makes an angle with the fiber axis that is less than the acceptance angle,

:$sin heta le sqrt\left\{n_o^2 - n_c^2\right\}$ ,

where:"θ" is the angle the ray makes with the fiber axis, "before" entering the fiber,:"no" is the refractive index along the central axis of the fiber, and:"nc" is the refractive index of the cladding.

This result can be derived from Snell's law by considering the critical angle.

Rays that fall within this angular range are reflected from the core-cladding boundary by total internal reflection, and so are confined by the core. The confinement of light by the fiber can also be described in terms of bound modes or guided modes. This treatment is necessary when considering singlemode fiber, since the ray model does not accurately describe the propagation of light in this type of fiber.

ee also

*Numerical aperture

References

* [http://www.its.bldrdoc.gov/fs-1037/dir-017/_2518.htm Federal Standard 1037C]

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