Abstract

We examine single-mode optical fiber transmission using the angular spectrum method. We find excellent agreement with the theoretical solutions for the cylindrical single-mode optical fiber. Next, we examine fiber coupler configurations with $1\times 2$, $1\times 3$, and $1\times 5$ designs. The input within the central fiber core is broadcast equally into the surrounding fiber cores and then returns with propagation distances as expected. Then we examine supermode theory for the $1\times 3$ case. The initial energy is sent into different combinations of fiber cores where their phase relationship governs the output. Surprisingly, we find evidence of an unexpected mode in some of the multicore designs. We expect these results might be useful for exploration of more complicated fiber core arrays. However, computational times are short using this algorithm.

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