• DocumentCode
    995308
  • Title

    Failure of scalar analyses in dielectric optical waveguides with perturbed refractive-index profile

  • Author

    Miyagi, Masaya ; Nishida, Shuichi

  • Author_Institution
    Tohoku University, Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Sendai, Japan
  • Volume
    20
  • Issue
    22
  • fYear
    1984
  • Firstpage
    904
  • Lastpage
    905
  • Abstract
    It is theoretically shown that scalar analyses cannot properly predict the propagation constant of a particular mode in circular dielectric optical waveguides when the angular order of the mode satisfies some condition with respect to the order of the Fourier spectrum of the perturbed refractive-index profile.
  • Keywords
    guided light propagation; optical waveguide theory; refractive index; Fourier spectrum; dielectric optical waveguides; mode angular order; perturbed refractive-index profile; propagation constant; scalar analyses;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:19840614
  • Filename
    4249126