STUDY OF FORM BIREFRINGENCE IN WAVE-GUIDE DEVICES USING THE SEMIVECTORIAL BEAM PROPAGATION METHOD

被引:26
作者
LIU, PL [1 ]
LI, BJ [1 ]
机构
[1] SUNY BUFFALO,DEPT ELECT & COMP ENGN,BUFFALO,NY 14260
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
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D O I
10.1109/68.93260
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
Waveguide devices based on nonbirefringent substrates may still have form birefringence if there exist index discontinuities. We demonstrate that the semivectorial beam propagation method can be used to study the polarization dependence in waveguide devices. We show that the calculated coupling lengths of planar directional couplers match within 3.5% of analytical solutions. We also present results on polarization dependencies of coupling lengths and bending losses of rib waveguide devices.
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页码:913 / 915
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