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The pure bend loss of a curved dielectric optical waveguide can be reduced effectively with only a slight change in the transverse field distribution by replacing the cladding material outside the caustic by another material with a smaller refractive index. This is demonstrated by microwave model experiments.
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Ernst‐Georg Neumann (1982) studied this question.
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