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By expressing Maxwell’s equations in a linear-operator formalism, it is shown that the orthogonality and normalization properties of the continuous spectrum of radiation modes in a dielectric waveguide with arbitrary refractive-index profile and cross-sectional shape can be established directly from the properties of much simpler free-space fields.
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R.A. Sammut (1982) studied this question.
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