An efficient method for solving the three-dimensional wide angle wave equation in optical wave propagation

Author

Anada, Tetsuo ; Sawada, Ryouichi ; Hiraoka, Takaharu ; Pang, Hsu Jui

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Kanagawa Univ., Yokohama, Japan

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

992

Lastpage

995

Abstract

In this paper, a three-dimensional wide-angle beam propagation algorithm based on Pade series expansion is presented for photonic integrated circuits and devices. This offers an extra degree of freedom within configuration when applying BPM´s in the design of general photonic integrated circuits incorporating angled waveguide sections. The present wide angle beam propagation technique is compared with the conventional wide angle BPM through numerical examples in 3D dielectric waveguide and curved 3D waveguide model

Keywords

finite difference methods; integrated optics; light propagation; optical waveguide theory; wave equations; 3D curved waveguide; 3D dielectric waveguide; Pade series; angled waveguide; finite difference-beam propagation method; numerical algorithm; optical wave propagation; photonic integrated circuit; three-dimensional wide-angle wave equation; Acoustic beams; Dielectrics; Integrated optics; Optical design; Optical devices; Optical propagation; Optical refraction; Optical waveguides; Partial differential equations; Photonic integrated circuits;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference, 2000 Asia-Pacific

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6435-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APMC.2000.925995

Filename

925995