NUMERICAL MODELING OF NONLINEAR TE WAVES IN MULTIPLE-QUANTUM-WELL WAVE-GUIDES

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ZHAO, AP
CVETKOVIC, SR
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[1] Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Surrey, Guildford
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10.1109/68.141989
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
A computer-aided technique, based on the finite element method, has been developed for analysing intensity-dependent properties of TE waves guided by multiple-quantum-well (MQW) waveguides with arbitrary nonlinear media. Self-consistent solutions are obtained by a simple iterative procedure. The numerical results for TE power-dependent modes are presented for waveguides with either linear or nonlinear cladding regions. They reveal that, for values of total optical power above a certain threshold, the effect of nonlinear cladding regions on the propagation characteristics can be ignored. The power-dependent behaviour of a non-Kerr-like case is also examined.
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