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Improved combination of variational and effective index methods for optical rib and box-shaped waveguides

V. A. POPESCU1,*

Affiliation

  1. Department of Physics, University "Politehnica "of Bucharest, Splaiul Independentei 313, 060042 Bucharest, Romania

Abstract

We improve the values of the propagation constants for guided TE0 and TM0 modes in optical rib and box shaped waveguides by using a combination of variational and effective index methods..

Keywords

Optical waveguides, Variational method, Effective index method, Rib waveguide, Box shaped waveguide.

Citation

V. A. POPESCU, Improved combination of variational and effective index methods for optical rib and box-shaped waveguides, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 4, 4, April 2010, pp.459-464 (2010).

Submitted at: March 16, 2010

Accepted at: April 11, 2010