Light guidance in an optical fibre can be understood by considering a structure comprising of thin solid glass cylinder of refractive index n₁ surrounded by a medium of lower refractive index n₂. The light guidance in the structure takes place due to successive total internal reflections at the interface of the media n₁ and n₂ as shown in the figure. All rays with the angle of incidence i less than a particular value i_m are confined in the medium of refractive index n₁. The numerical aperture (NA) of the structure is defined as sin i_m.

For two structures namely S₁ with n₁ = $${{\sqrt {45} } \over 4}$$ and n₂ = $${3 \over 2}$$, and S₂ with n₁ = $${8 \over 5}$$ and n₂ = $${7 \over 5}$$ and taking the refractive index of water to be $${4 \over 3}$$ and that to air to be 1, the correct options is/are :

Light guidance in an optical fibre can be understood by considering a structure comprising of thin solid glass cylinder of refractive index n₁ surrounded by a medium of lower refractive index n₂. The light guidance in the structure takes place due to successive total internal reflections at the interface of the media n₁ and n₂ as shown in the figure. All rays with the angle of incidence i less than a particular value i_m are confined in the medium of refractive index n₁. The numerical aperture (NA) of the structure is defined as sin i_m.

If two structures of same cross-sectional area, but different numeral apertures NA₁ and NA₂ (NA₂ < NA₁) are joined longitudinally, the numerical aperture of the combined structure is

Two identical glass rods S₁ and S₂ (refractive index = 1.5) have one convex end of radius of curvature 10 cm. They are placed with the curved surfaces at a distance d as shown in the figure, with their axes (shown by the dashed line) aligned. When a point source of light P is placed inside rod S₁ on its axis at a distance of 50 cm from the curved face, the light rays emanating from it are found to be parallel to the axis inside S₂. The distance d is

A transparent thin film of uniform thickness and refractive index n₁ = 1.4 is coated on the convex spherical surface of radius R at one end of a long solid glass cylinder of refractive index n₂ = 1.5, as shown in the figure. Rays of light parallel to the axis of the cylinder traversing through the film from air to glass get focused at distance f₁ from the film, while rays of light traversing from glass to air get focused at distance f₂ from the film. Then