Accession Number:

ADA008641

Title:

Non-Degenerate Surface-Wave Mode Coupling of a System of Dielectric Waveguides,

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

COLORADO UNIV BOULDER ELECTROMAGNETICS LAB

Personal Author(s):

• Kuester,Edward F.
• Chang,David C.

Report Date:

1974-10-01

Pagination or Media Count:

55.0

Abstract:

A number of different methods in the literature for calculating the coupling between surface wave modes on parallel optical waveguides are examined and found to give identical results only for degenerate modes. A new variational derivation of the coupling coefficients is given, which is extended in a straightforward manner to include anisotropic guides andor an arbitrary number of guides or modes. The character of the differences between the various methods in the non-degenerate case is discussed, and the approximations required are investigated numerically for the case of two parallel slab waveguides.

Descriptors:

• *INTEGRATED CIRCUITS
• *OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES
• *DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES
• SURFACE WAVES
• NUMERICAL ANALYSIS
• ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
• COUPLERS
• CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES

Subject Categories:

• Fiber Optics and Integrated Optics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE