An entire-domain basis Galerkin´s method for the modeling of integrated mm-wave and optical circuits

Author

Athanasoulias, G. ; Uzunoglu, N.K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Greece

fYear

1995

fDate

16-20 May 1995

Firstpage

471

Abstract

The propagation characteristics of coupled rectangular dielectric waveguides are analyzed using the electric field integral equation. In contrast with the widely used subdomain basis Galerkin´s method, in this work a novel set of entire-domain basis functions is utilized. This set consists of plane wave functions that satisfy Maxwell´s equations in each guiding region. Computed dispersion curves are presented for a mm-wave transmission line and compare very closely to results of other techniques. The present implementation can also deal with integrated optical circuits and its main advantage is superior numerical efficiency.<>

Keywords

Galerkin method; Maxwell equations; dielectric waveguides; dispersion (wave); electromagnetic wave propagation; integral equations; millimetre wave integrated circuits; optical planar waveguides; rectangular waveguides; Maxwell´s equations; coupled rectangular dielectric waveguides; dispersion curves; electric field integral equation; entire-domain basis Galerkin´s method; guiding region; integrated mm-wave circuits; integrated optical circuits; mm-wave transmission line; numerical efficiency; plane wave functions; propagation characteristics; subdomain basis; Circuits; Dielectrics; Integral equations; Integrated optics; Moment methods; Optical propagation; Optical waveguides; Permittivity; Rectangular waveguides; Wave functions;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest, 1995., IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL, USA

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2581-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.1995.405944

Filename

405944