Optical Waveguide Sciences

One: Education-Oriented Papers.- Pulse Propagation in Optical Fibers.- Source-type Representation for Fields in Optical Waveguide Sections and Their Consequences for the Spectral Field Constituents.- Microwave Approach to Optical Waveguides.- A Course in Optical Waveguides.- Two: Single-Mode Optical Fibers.- Theory of Imperfect Nonconventional Single-mode Optical Fibers.- Monomode Fibers for Long Haul Transmission Systems.- Single-Polarization Single-Mode Optical Waveguiding Schemes.- Measurement of Chromatic Dispersion in Single-Mode Fibers by Incoherent Sources.- Extraction of Single-Mode Fiber ESI Parameters by Using a Simple Technique for the Measurement of Bend Loss.- Determination of Single-Mode Fiber Refractive Index Profiles by a Propagation-Mode Near-Field Scanning Technique.- The Effects of Birefringent Fluctuations on a Fiber Optic Gyro.- Birefringence in Weakly Guiding Highly Elliptical Core Fibers.- Three: Optical Waveguide Systems.- Recent Progress in Heterodyne/Coherent Optical Fiber Communications.- Polarization Stability Requirements for Coherent Optical Fiber Transmission Systems.- Feasibility and Requirements for Dispersion Compensation in Coherent FOC.- Optical Nonlinearity in Fibers: A New Factor in System Design.- Four: Optical Waveguide Theory and Practice.- Inversion Transformations in Geometrical Optics and Allied Subjects.- Hollow Waveguides for Long-Wavelength I. R. Radiation.- On the Eigenstates of Polarized Geometrical Rays in Graded-Index Multimode Fibers.- Matrix Method for Determining Propagation Characteristics of Optical Waveguides.- Variable Section Optical Waveguides.- Guided Modes of the Graded-Index Optical Fiber with a Parabolic-Index Core.- Approximate Dispersion Curves of Some Noncircular Dielectric Optical Waveguides.- Processing of Near-field Intensity Measurements in Optical Fibers.- Error Analysis of Refractive Index Profile Measurements of Optical Fibre and Preform.- Concatenation Phenomena in Multimode Fibers.- Analysis and Design of the Angular Scrambling Star Coupler.- An Accurate Analysis of the Emission from a Semiconductor Laser and Its Application to Excitation of an Optical Waveguide.- Backscattering in Optical Fibers.- Hamiltonian Analysis of the Propagation of Beam Modes in Multi-Mode Gradient Index Fibers.- Asymptotic Mode Expansion in Diffused Optical Waveguides with Gaussian Profile.- Five: Planar Optical Waveguides.- Carrier-Induced Index Change in A1GaAs InGaAsP Lasers and Its Influence on Optical Waveguiding.- Waveguide Type Optical Isolator and Circulator Using Magneto-Optic Garnet Thin Films.- Mode Coupling Coefficients and Brewster’s Law of Waveguide Gratings.- Numerical Calculation of the Diffraction Pattern on the Focal Line of a Chirped Grating Lens on Optical Waveguides.- Waveguide Optical Planar Lens — A New Design.- On a Zig-Zag Ray Picture in a Planar Waveguide.- Scattering of Surface Waves on Transverse Discontinuities in Symmetrical Multi-layer Dielectric Waveguides.- Cutoff Frequencies of Optical Planar/Cylindrical Structures Using the Resonance Technique.- Six: Symposium Briefs.- Throughput and Coupling in Optical Fibers.- Beam Propagation in the Paraxial Approximation.- Leaky-wave Modes and Their Role in the Numerical Evaluation of the Field Excited by a Line Source in a Non-Symmetric, Inhomogeneously Layered Slab Waveguide.- Optical Image Transmission Through a Single Fiber by Chromatic coding.- Transient Stimulated Raman Scattering in Glass Fiber.- Research on Intensity Distribution of Multi-Order SRS in an Optical Fiber.- Experimental Investigation of Prism-Grating Couplers.- Transmission of High Power Laser Beams Through Optical Fiber.- Coupling between Single-mode Lasers and Single-Mode Fibers.- Faraday Rotation in Monomode Fiber with Axially varying Magnetic Field.- LiNb03 Waveguides by Electrically Enhanced Ion Migration and a Comparison of Techniques.- Geodesic Lenses for Integrated Optics.- Zirconia Containing Optical Fibers Pulled by Double Crucible Method.- Launching Light From Semiconductor Lasers into Single-Mode Fiber Optical Waveguides.- List and Index of Authors.