A NEW INTEGRAL EXPRESSION FOR THE EFFECTIVE REFRACTIVE-INDEX OF OPTICAL WAVE-GUIDES AND ITS APPLICATION FOR A FAST NUMERICAL-SOLUTION FINDER FOR THE EFFECTIVE REFRACTIVE-INDEX

The effective refractive index (or its inverse) of optical waveguides is found to be describable by an integral expression as a square-root of field-distribution-weighted-mean of squared refractive index distri bution (or its inverse). This principle is utilized to find out the ef fective refractive index without solving the eigenvalue equation and a new fast numerical computation procedure is proposed. The proposed pr ocedure can be applied to either linear or nonlinear waveguide, exhibi ting a particular improvement in computational speed for the nonlinear case.