Analysis of buffered multilayer optical planar waveguides
V. A. POPESCU1,*
Affiliation
- Department of Physics, University "Politehnica "of Bucharest, Splaiul Independentei 313, 060042 Bucharest, Romania
Abstract
A variational method is used to study the effects of addition of a low-index buffer layer over a high-index substrate on the
propagation characteristics of a waveguide. For a buffered leaky waveguide with a single mode, the TM mode is more leaky
out into the high-index substrate in comparison with the TE mode. Also, for a buffered leaky waveguide with three modes,
the TE2 (TM2) mode is more leaky out and with a faster oscillation into the high-index substrate in comparison with the TE1
(TM1) and TE0 (TM0) modes..
Keywords
Waveguides, Quantum mechanics.
Citation
V. A. POPESCU, Analysis of buffered multilayer optical planar waveguides, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 3, 5, May 2009, pp.428-430 (2009).
Submitted at: Feb. 19, 2009
Accepted at: May 25, 2009