Transform technique for planar optical waveguides

Kumar, Shiva and Srinivas, T and Selvarajan, A (1991) Transform technique for planar optical waveguides. In: Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 8 (11). pp. 1681-1687.

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Abstract

A new method for obtaining total field solutions and propagation constants for planar optical waveguiding structures by using a transform technique is presented. The method reduces the two-dimensional Helmholtz equation into a system of linear algebraic equations that can be solved on a computer. The method takes into account arbitrary input excitation and is applicable to arbitrary refractive-index variations in the transverse direction. We illustrate the method by applying it to directional couplers and straight waveguides with graded-index profiles-parabolic and exponential profiles. The results are in good agreement with analytical results.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Optical Society of America.
Department/Centre:	Division of Electrical Sciences > Electrical Communication Engineering
Date Deposited:	25 Sep 2007
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:39
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in/id/eprint/11885

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