A Cheby̅shev power-series approach is used for cutoff frequencies of the second mode in fibres with arbitrary refractive-index profiles. The method is fast because only a small number of terms is required to give high accuracy. A feature of this approach is that measured profiles can be used directly without being first converted to any specific forms. Examples are given as illustrations.
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P.Y.P. Chen (1982) studied this question.