INTEGRAL-EQUATION ANALYSIS FOR 1ST ORDER VECTOR CORRECTION OF ARBITRARY PROFILES

Recently, we presented a semianalytical method of analysis for arbitrary weakly guiding circular and noncircular profiles based on the scalar wave equation. In this paper, we extend and develop this theory to encompass the analysis of the first order vector correction for the zeroth order modes of the scalar wave equation. Furthermore, the method presented in this paper implements no approximations in the analysis of the first order correction, and retains all the properties of the semianalytical method of analysis we previously presented, thus resulting in a method of analysis possessing extremely high accuracy (< 10(-5)%).