Accurate analysis of MMI devices with two-dimensional confinement

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Rajarajan, M
Rahman, BMA
Wongcharoen, T
Grattan, KTV
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[1] Dept. Elec., Electron., Info. Eng., City University, London, EC1V 0HB, Northampton Square
[2] City University, London
[3] Bangladesh Univ. Eng. and Technol., Dhaka
[4] University College London, London
[5] Elec. Electron. and Info. Eng. Dept., City University, London
[6] Queen's University, Belfast
[7] Imperial College, University of London
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10.1109/50.536976
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
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The accurate analysis of multinode interference (MMI) devices with two-dimensional (2-D) confinement has been demonstrated by using the least squares boundary residual (LSBR) method. Accurate modal propagation constants and spatial field profiles in the MMI section are obtained by using the vector H-field based finite element method. The accurate calculation of the excited modal coefficients is achieved by using the LSBR, which satisfies the continuity of the transverse field components more rigorously than using simple overlap integrals.
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