Light Propagation in Optical Fibers


Keywords
refraction, Sellmeier, modes, dispersion, graded, index, gradient, single, mode, multimode, step, erbium, waveguide, planar, cylindrical, fibers, noise, optical
License
MIT
Install
pip install ofiber==0.1.0

Documentation

ofiber

by Scott Prahl

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Python code to calculate light propagation through optical fibers following the approach presented in Ghatak and Thyagarajan, An Introduction to Fiber Optics. Far-field fiber calculations are based on Chen, Foundations for Guided-Wave Optics.

Installation

Use pip:

pip install ofiber

or conda:

conda install -c conda-forge ofiber

Usage

A few examples are shown below. For all examples, see ofiber documentation

Symmetric planar waveguides

Planar Waveguide

Cylindrical fibers with step index profiles

Modes in Step Index Fiber

Mode Irradiance

Internal Modes

Far-field emission for step index fibers

Far-field Irradiance

polar angle of the minimum of the central irradiance lobe

Fiber design

Fiber Design

Dispersion

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Colab

License

ofiber is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.