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A Multidomain Pseudospectral Mode Solver for Optical Waveguide Analysis

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Shun-Fan Chiang *
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Bang‐Yan Lin
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Hung-Chun Chang
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Chun-Hao Teng
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Chih-Yu Wang
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Shih-Yung Chung
DOI:10.1109/JLT.2012.2191937delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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We propose a pseudospectral mode solver for optical waveguide mode analysis formulated by the frequency-domain Maxwell equations. Special attention is paid upon identifying the required boundary operator for the formulation and the relationships between the derived operator and the physical boundary conditions. These theoretical results are adopted into a Legendre pseudospectral multidomain computational framework to compute the propagation characteristics of optical waveguides. Numerical experiments are conducted, and the expected spectral convergence of the scheme is observed for smooth problems and for problems having field jumps at material interfaces. For dielectric waveguides with sharp corners, the spectral convergence is lost due to the singular nature of fields at the corner. Nevertheless, compared with other methods, the present formulation remains as an efficient approach to obtain waveguide modes.
Keywords:
Frequency-domain Maxwell's equations
optical waveguides
penalty boundary conditions
pseudospectral methods
waveguide analysis

Journal

Journal of Lightwave Technology cover
Journal of Lightwave Technology
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4.8
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National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
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National Taiwan University
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