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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices (NUSOD), 2012 12th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1602-6
DOI :
10.1109/NUSOD.2012.6316539
