聚合物脊形光波导的变分有效折射率法分析.pdfVIP

28 12 Vol. 28, No . 12 2008 12 ACTA OPTICA SINICA December, 2008 : 2008) 聚合物脊形光波导的变分有效折射率法分析 廖进昆 唐雄贵 陆荣国 李和平 刘永智 ( , 610054) , , , , , T M , , , ; ; T ET M ; ; T N252. 34 A doi: 10. 3788/AO2267 V ariational Effective Index Analysis of P olym er R ib Optical W aveguide Liao Jinkun Tang Xionggui Lu Rongguo Li Heping Liu ongzhi ( School of OptoEl ctr on ic Inf orm ation , Un iv rsity of El ct ronic Sci n c and T chn ology of China , Ch n gdu , Sichu an 6 10054, China ) Abstract Polymer rib optical waveguide is an important component in polymeric integrated optoelectronic devices such as electrooptic modulators. By using effective index method (EIM) to calculate the transverse refractive index distribution and effective index of polymer rib waveguide, the optical field distribution in each region is expressed as piecewise functions approximately. Based on the scalar wave equation that governs the guided modes, the variational parameter is determined by variational method (VM) for obtaining accurate transverse optical field distribution. The dispersion characteristics and transverse field distribution of the fundamental and higherorder modes are analyzed for polymer rib multimode waveguide. An algorithmis implemented to study the effect of the structural parameters and dimensions on the dispersion characteristics, and the optical field distribution of the fundamental and higherorder modes for TM modes is calculated. The singlemode transmission condition for polymer rib optical waveguide is obtained. The approach has advantages of high