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Exact analytical method for planar optical waveguides with arbitrary index profile

Zhuangqi Cao, Yi Jiang, Qishun Shen, Xiaoming Dou, Yingli Chen

Journal of the Optical Society of America A · 1999 · 80 citations · 6 references

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Abstract

We present a novel matrix method that allows the straightforward determination of exact propagation constants as well as the field configuration in the region that is beyond the turning point at the substrate side for arbitrarily graded-index planar waveguides.

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