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Can I do a model of fiber and bend it?

  • March 14, 2021
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I need to bend single-mode fiber and see how light comes out of the fiber depending on the bending angle

Best answer by Mark.Nicholson

Hi Vladislav,

You can't do this with OpticStudio. You'd need a beam propagation code like Lumerical makes (I forget the name of the specific code, sorry). Single-mode fibers are really waveguides not lightpipes and are not well described by ray tracing.

- Mark

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  • March 14, 2021

Hi Vladislav,

You can't do this with OpticStudio. You'd need a beam propagation code like Lumerical makes (I forget the name of the specific code, sorry). Single-mode fibers are really waveguides not lightpipes and are not well described by ray tracing.

- Mark