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25 1 Vol.25, No. 1 2005 1 CT OPTIC SINIC January, 2005 : 0253-2239(2005)01-51-4 一种适用于任意折射率分布的等效折射率方法 时尧成 戴道锌 何赛灵 ( , 310027) : , ,, ,, (EIM) , ,SOI( silicon-on- insulator) , , ,, () : ; ; ; ; ; : T N252 : An Effective Index Method for an Optical Waveguide with an Arbitrary Refractive Index Distribution Shi Yaocheng Dai Daoxin He Sailing (Center for Optical and Electromagnetic Resear ch , State Key Laboratory for Modern Optical Instrumentation , Zhejiang Univer sity , Hangzhou 310027) Abstract: A new effective index method (EIM) is intr oduced to r educe a two- dimensi onal refractiv e index struct ur e to a one-dimensional one accurately The pr esent EIM can be implemented for arbitrarily shaped wav eguides An expli cit formula is obtained for the effectiv e refractiv e index pr ofil e determined by the model fil ed and the cross- secti onal r efractive index of the original structur e In or der to show how the pr esent method is carried out, a silicon- on-insulator ( SOI) rib wavegui de is used in a numeri cal example The effective model fi el d distributi on and the effectiv e index profile ar e cal culated with the pr esent EIM The bending loss of a SOI bent wavegui de is also cal culated with the present and conventional EIMs respectiv ely The numeri cal results show that the pr esent method is much mor e accurate than the conventi onal EIM Key words: integrated optics; effective index method; wavegui de; finite difference method; bending loss; silicon- on-insulator 1 (effective