• DocumentCode
    1103929
  • Title

    Eigenproblems of radially inhomogeneous optical fibers from the scalar formulation

  • Author

    Su, Ching-Chuan

  • Author_Institution
    National Tsinghua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Republic of China
  • Volume
    21
  • Issue
    10
  • fYear
    1985
  • fDate
    10/1/1985 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1554
  • Lastpage
    1557
  • Abstract
    A unified method based on finite difference is proposed to find cutoff frequencies and propagation constants of optical fibers with arbitrary refractive-index profiles in the scalar form. This method is shown to be efficient in terms of accuracy and computation cost.
  • Keywords
    Finite difference methods; Optical fibers; Bandwidth; Computational efficiency; Cutoff frequency; Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; Finite difference methods; Optical fibers; Optical propagation; Optical refraction; Partial differential equations; Propagation constant;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9197
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/JQE.1985.1072560
  • Filename
    1072560