I Ray Analysis of Multimode Optical Waveguides. - to Part I. - 1 Bound rays of planar waveguides. - 2 Bound rays of fibers. - 3 Pulse spreading. - 4 Fiber illumination and pulse shape. - 5 Nonuniform fibers. - 6 Material absorption. - 7 Leaky rays. - 8 Spatial transient. - 9 Bends. - 10 Diffraction phenomena. - II Electromagnetic Analysis of Optical Waveguides. - to Part II. - 11 Fundamental properties of modes. - 12 Waveguides with exact solutions. - 13 Weakly guiding waveguides. - 14 Circular fibers. - 15 Gaussian approximation for circular fibers. - 16 Noncircular waveguides. - 17 Gaussian approximation for noncircular fibers. - 18 Modes of perturbed fibers. - 19 Slowly varying waveguides. - 20 Illumination tilts and offsets. - 21 Sources within fibers. - 22 Nonuniform fibers. - 23 Bends. - 24 Leaky modes. - 25 Radiation modes. - 26 Decomposition of the radiation field. - 27 Mode coupling. - 28 Local-mode coupling. - 29 Cross-talk. - III Supplementary Material. - to Part III. - 30 Maxwell's equations. - 31 Modal methods for Maxwell's equations. - 32 Weak-guidance approximation. - 33 Modal methods for the scalar wave equation. - 34 Green's function methods. - 35 Rays and local plane waves. - 36 Rays and asymptotic modal methods. - 37 Mathematical formulae. - Author index. Language: English