“…We give details for the loss of the y-polarized fundamental mode of a circularly symmetric step-profile fiber. When the anisotropic fiber is produced via the application of stress [12] -[13] we have n, = n,, w h e r e x , y , z are the geometric axes of the anisotropic fiber as in Fig. 1, and IZ,, n y , n, are the principal refractive indices.…”