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Eigenmode Analysis of Photonic Bandgap Waveguides Formed by Rectangular Cylinders Koki WATANABE Department of Information and Communication Engineering Faculty of Information Engineering Fukuoka Institute of Technology 3-30-1 Wajirohigashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 811-0295, Japan Phone/Fax: +81-92-606-4975, Email: koki@fit.ac.jp Abstract—A novel formulation is proposed to ana- veloped by Nakayama [2]. The periodic Fourier transform lyze the eigenmodes propagating in two-dimensional was originally proposed to analyze scattering problems photonic crystal waveguides formed by rectangular of periodic surfaces with finite extent. The present for- cylinders. The electromagnetic fields are transformed mulation applies the transform to waveguide propagation by the periodic Fourier transform, which makes func- with the combination of the Fourier series expansion tions periodic, and then expanded in the Fourier se- method [3]. We truncate the Fourier series expansion and ries without introducing an approximation of artificial discrete the transform parameter. Then, the eigenmode periodic boundary. The transformed fields are dis- cretized in the transform parameter and the wave expansion is obtained from the eigenvalue/eigenvector propagation in the waveguide structure is described analysis of the transfer matrix for one periodicity cell [4]. in a matrix form. It is possible to derive the trans- fer matrix for one periodicity cell in t