Propagation properties of multilayer thin-film polarization-maintaining optical 3-D waveguide

Author

Hsu, J.-P. ; Anada, T. ; Nakamura, S. ; Kobayashi, T.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Eng., Kanagawa Univ., Yokohama, Japan

fYear

1991

fDate

10-14 July 1991

Firstpage

615

Abstract

A novel single-mode and polarization-maintaining three-dimensional optical waveguide is proposed. The structure of the optical waveguide proposed here consists of lamination of very thin-films of two optical materials with different refractive indices and the rib-type waveguide for the confinement of the optical field in the vertical and horizontal direction, respectively. The method of analysis is based on the equivalent multimode transmission line model and the transverse resonance condition. This method is used to investigate the propagation properties of the guided wave for various structure parameters. Some numerical results are presented.<>

Keywords

light polarisation; optical films; optical waveguide theory; optical waveguides; 3D waveguide; multilayer thin-film waveguides; multimode transmission line model; optical field; polarization-maintaining three-dimensional optical waveguide; propagation properties; refractive indices; rib-type waveguide; single-mode waveguide; structure parameters; transverse resonance condition; Lamination; Nonhomogeneous media; Optical films; Optical materials; Optical polarization; Optical propagation; Optical refraction; Optical variables control; Optical waveguides; Transistors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest, 1991., IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Boston, MA, USA

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

0-87942-591-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.1991.147078

Filename

147078