Abstract

By using a meshless finite cloud method, a full-vector mode solver in terms of transverse-magnetic-field components for optical dielectric waveguide bends is developed in a local cylindrical coordinate system. To construct the interpolation function, both the point collocation and the fixed reproducing kernel technique are utilized, and then with the help of the continuity conditions of the longitudinal field components and the perfectly matched layer absorbing boundary conditions, a standard matrix eigenvalue is obtained. Compared with the conventional meshed numerical techniques, the distributions of solution points of the present meshless method can be applied to the area of complexity in a completely free manner. Consequently, excellent convergence with high accuracy can be realized. Moreover, the present method can be applied to both the uniform and non-uniform nodal distributions, thus the computational procedure is relatively flexible. To validate the proposed method, both fundamental and high-order leaky modes for a typical rib bending waveguide are analyzed and their modal field distributions and corresponding effective refractive indexes are presented. Results are in good agreement with those published earlier, showing the effectiveness of the present method.

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