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Techniques are proposed for launching light into circular glass-fibre waveguides from prism couplers and thin-film optical waveguides. To make the evanescent field of core modes available, the fibre cladding is etched away, or its refractive index modified by ion exchange.
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Laybourn et al. (1975) studied this question.
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