How can the electric field of optical fibers be visualized?

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Hello!
For dielectric slab waveguides, starting from the field expressions, it is possible to draw the Electric field corresponding to a specific mode, showing its (possible) zeros inside the core and its exponential decay in the cladding:

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A Google search can provide plenty of images like this one.
What about optical fibers instead? Is it possible to obtain an equivalent image, which corresponds to the obtained field expressions?
I couldn't find them.

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