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Language:enStatus: Standard
Term: leaky mode
Synonym1: tunnelling mode
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Definition: in an optical fibre, a mode which has an evanescent field in the transverse direction external to the core for a finite distance but which conveys power in a transverse direction everywhere beyond that distance

NOTE – Leaky modes correspond to leaky rays.


Publication date:1991-10
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