ABSTRACT
To understand the way optical fibre devices work, it is necessary to
study some basic concepts of optics and physics. This chapter is
intended to introduce these ideas to those who may not have studied
the field, and to review them for those who have. The reader is urged to
seek additional information in the references at the end of this Chapter
(Jeunhomme 1988, Miller et al. 1986, Miller and Kaminov 1988,
Neumann 1988, Marcuse 1974, Adams 1981, Snyder and Love 1983,
Vassallo 1991, Kapany and Burke 1972, Senior 1992). Reviews of the
development, fabrication and performance of optical components
(Stolen and De Paula 1987, Goure et al. 1989, Noda and Yokohama
1988, Dakin and Culshaw 1988, Dakin and Culshaw 1989) and sensing
systems (Culshaw 1984, Jones 1987) have been published.
