The elastic strain imposed on a multimode optical fibre by physical deformation is shown to have a significant influence on propagation. The propagation, and in particular the mode coupling, behaves as though the fibre were unstrained but had, instead, a reduced curvature everywhere.
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J H Hannay (1976) studied this question.
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