Electromagnetics of Integrated Optical Waveguides (Invited Paper)

Abstract

We have presented electromagnetic analyses of a number of optical waveguides used in integrated optical devices. The attempt in each case has been to consider a simple refractive index distribution and bring out most of the important propagation characteristics of the waveguide. Some of the analyses will be quite general in nature e g, the study of leaky modes, the use of the recently-developed matrix method for determining the propagation characteristics of optical waveguides, the application of perturbation method for the analysis of non-separable profiles etc and would be applicable to optical fibres also.

Indexing terms:

• Optical waveguides
• Integrated opticai devices
• Metal clad waveguides