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Our main concern in the first six chapters was with the behavior of bound rays, which propagate without loss of power on nonabsorbing fibers. Bound rays provide a complete description of light propagation on nonabsorbing fibers sufficiently far from the source, when virtually all leaky-ray power has been lost. We call this the spatial steadystate. In this chapter our attention is turned to the region intermediate between the source and the onset of the spatial steady state, where light propagation is described by the spatial transient.
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Snyder, A.W., Love, J.D. (1983). Spatial transient. In: Optical Waveguide Theory. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2813-1_9
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