Large-Time-Step-Based Ray-Tracing Modeling of Light Delivery in One-Sidedly Cladding-Removed Step-Index Plastic Optical Fiber under Arbitrary Weave Structure

Table 3

Simulation speed comparison between small-step and large-step models.

# of rays	Simulation time (min : sec.msec)
	Small step	Large step
100	0 : 07.767	0 : 0.19
1009	1 : 25.208	0 : 0.780
2007	3 : 53.325	0 : 0.139
4015	7 : 42.042	0 : 0.247
8005	15 : 19.802	0 : 0.528

POF length = 5 mm; curvature = 0.571 mm⁻¹; no. of cylinders for a fiber = 20; cladding not removed.