PLANAR OPTICAL WAVE-GUIDES WITH ARBITRARY INDEX PROFILE - AN ACCURATEMETHOD OF ANALYSIS

Authors
GOYAL IC JINDAL R GHATAK AK
Citation
Ic. Goyal et al., PLANAR OPTICAL WAVE-GUIDES WITH ARBITRARY INDEX PROFILE - AN ACCURATEMETHOD OF ANALYSIS, Journal of lightwave technology, 15(11), 1997, pp. 2179-2182
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Journal of lightwave technology → ACNP
ISSN journal
07338724
Volume
15
Issue
11
Year of publication
1997
Pages
2179 - 2182
Database
ISI
SICI code
0733-8724(1997)15:11<2179:POWWAI>2.0.ZU;2-0
Abstract
We present here an improvement of the existing modified airy function (MAF) method, The results of our study show that the improvement gives extremely accurate propagation constants and also the modal fields fo r planar waveguides with arbitrary index profile.