Abstract
The variational method is applied to determine the propagation eigenmodes in a waveguide where a lossless glass substrate has refractive index lower than that of the lossy superconducting guiding layers. For this waveguide, the TM mode is more confined within the core layer and in superconducting thin films and more evanescent in the air claddings in comparison with the TE mode. The maximum for the imaginary part of the effective index and the maximum of the fractional power guided in superconducting layers for TM mode are smaller and shifted to higher values of the glass thickness in comparison with the TE mode.
Keywords
Quantum mechanics, Superconductive optical waveguides.
Citation
V. A. POPESCU, N. N. PUSCAS, Comparison between TE and TM modes in superconducting multilayer optical planar waveguides, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 4, 8, August 2010, pp.1102-1105 (2010).
Submitted at: July 1, 2010
Accepted at: Aug. 12, 2010