Modeling of uniaxial anisotropic fibers with noncircular cross-section by the method of lines

Author

Pregla, Reinhold ; Conradi, Olaf

Author_Institution

Univ. of Hagen, Germany

Volume

2

fYear

2002

fDate

6/24/1905 12:00:00 AM

Abstract

Summary form only given. Only in ideal case optical fibers are of circular cross section. Furthermore, sometimes noncircular cross sections are of great interest. Especially elliptical cross sections and cross sections of star form should be mentioned. Therefore, a new algorithm for the analysis of fibers with nearly arbitrarily cross sections will be presented in this contribution. This algorithm is based on the method of lines with discretization lines of various length. Impedance/admittance transformation formulas between the interfaces of the layers are developed. The materials are assumed to be uniaxial anisotropic. The algorithm can also be used for planar optical waveguides with layers of non-constant thicknesses. The proposed algorithm is verified by numerical results.

Keywords

method of lines; optical fibre theory; arbitrarily cross sections; discretization lines; impedance/admittance transformation formulas; layer interfaces; method of lines; noncircular cross-section; nonconstant thicknesses; optical waveguide theory; planar optical waveguides; uniaxial anisotropic; uniaxial anisotropic fiber modelling; Admittance; Algorithm design and analysis; Anisotropic magnetoresistance; Geometrical optics; Impedance; Optical fibers; Optical materials; Optical planar waveguides; Optical waveguides; Planar waveguides;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2002. Proceedings of the 2002 4th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7375-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2002.1007878

Filename

1007878