TY - JOUR AU - Lakshminarayanan, Vasudevan AU - Calvo Padilla, MarĂ­a Luisa PY - 1987 DO - 10.1364/JOSAA.4.001037 SN - 0740-3232 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/59093 T2 - Journal of the Optical Society of America A-Optics Image Science And Vision AB - An exact formulation of the electromagnetic field striking an optical waveguide is presented and compared with the decomposition relationship used in the literature. The expression for the critical angle is derived as a natural consequence of this... LA - eng M2 - 1037 PB - Optical Society of America KW - Optics TI - Initial field and energy flux in absorbing optical waveguides. I. Theoretical formalism TY - journal article VL - 4 ER -