• DocumentCode
    3497606
  • Title

    Beam propagation analysis using higher-order full-vectorial finite-difference method

  • Author

    Cheng-Han Du ; Yih-Peng Chiou

  • Author_Institution
    Grad. Inst. of Photonics & Optoelectron., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    28-31 Aug. 2012
  • Firstpage
    105
  • Lastpage
    106
  • Abstract
    We develop a full-vectorial higher-order finite-difference formulation to model optical waveguides. Our proposed scheme yields improved convergence and field calculation results. Applications to beam propagation analysis of a photonic crystal coupler is demonstrated.
  • Keywords
    convergence of numerical methods; finite difference methods; light propagation; optical couplers; optical waveguides; photonic crystals; beam propagation; convergence; field calculation; higher-order full-vectorial finite-difference method; model optical waveguides; photonic crystal coupler; Adaptive optics; Convergence; Couplers; Frequency division multiplexing; Optical waveguides; Photonic crystals; Solid modeling;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices (NUSOD), 2012 12th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Shanghai
  • ISSN
    2158-3234
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1602-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/NUSOD.2012.6316539
  • Filename
    6316539