• DocumentCode
    1108476
  • Title

    Attenuation of cutoff modes and leaky modes of dielectric slab structures

  • Author

    Haus, Hermann A. ; Miller, David

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
  • Volume
    22
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    1986
  • fDate
    2/1/1986 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    310
  • Lastpage
    318
  • Abstract
    A simple formula is developed for the attenuation constant of higher order cutoff modes of a dielectric slab guide and of the modes of leaky guides. The formula is based on a perturbation analysis that reduces the problem to that of the transmission characteristic of a Fabry-Perot resonator. Under certain approximations, the formula for leaky guides reduces to that of Hall and Yeh, but the formula has a wider range of applicability.
  • Keywords
    Optical planar waveguides; Planar optical waveguide; Absorption; Attenuation; Dielectrics; Gallium arsenide; Optical coupling; Optical propagation; Optical reflection; Propagation constant; Refractive index; Slabs;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9197
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/JQE.1986.1072956
  • Filename
    1072956