• DocumentCode
    841197
  • Title

    A field-based numerical method for three-dimensional analysis of optical waveguide discontinuities

  • Author

    Feng, Ning-Ning ; Huang, Wei-Ping

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., McMaster Univ., Hamilton, Ont., Canada
  • Volume
    39
  • Issue
    12
  • fYear
    2003
  • Firstpage
    1661
  • Lastpage
    1665
  • Abstract
    A field-based numerical method for simulation of field scattering at discontinuities along three-dimensional optical waveguides of arbitrary index profiles is presented. Different from the previous work based on directly diagonalizing the characteristic matrices, we developed a robust and efficient iterative scheme by using an improved Neumann series. Superb performance of the scheme in terms of accuracy and efficiency is demonstrated and verified.
  • Keywords
    iterative methods; optical waveguide theory; waveguide discontinuities; Neumann series; accuracy; arbitrary index; characteristic matrices; diagonalizing; field-based numerical method; iterative scheme; optical waveguide discontinuities; Computational efficiency; Equations; Finite difference methods; Iterative algorithms; Optical scattering; Optical waveguides; Sparse matrices; Time domain analysis; Transmission line matrix methods; Waveguide discontinuities;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9197
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/JQE.2003.819555
  • Filename
    1253239