Kirill Gokhberg,1
Ilya Vorobeichik,1
Edvardas Narevicius,1
and Nimrod Moiseyev2
1OpTun Ltd., MTM Scientific Industries Center, Haifa 31905, Israel
2OpTun Ltd., MTM Scientific Industries Center, Haifa 31905, Israel, and Department of Chemistry and Minerva Center for Non-Linear Physics of Complex Systems, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
Kirill Gokhberg, Ilya Vorobeichik, Edvardas Narevicius, and Nimrod Moiseyev, "Solution of the vector wave equation by the separable effective adiabatic basis set method," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 21, 1809-1817 (2004)
A novel separable effective adiabatic basis (SEAB) for the solution of the transverse vector wave equation by the variational method is presented. The basis is constructed by a suitably modified adiabatic approximation. The method of SEAB construction is applicable to the waveguides of a general cross section. By calculating scalar modes in rectangular and rib waveguides, we show that the use of SEAB entails computational effort several orders of magnitude less than the use of the more conventional Fourier basis. As an illustrative example, the polarized modes of a rib waveguide are calculated.
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Effective Refractive Index,
and the Computation Error of the Last Bound Mode in the Rib Waveguidea
Number of Basis Functions,
Sine Basis
Adiabatic Basis
Error
Error
1.444219
—
1.445291
—
1.444364
1.445351
1.444693
1.445376
1.444741
1.445386
Note that this state is found to be bound only when the adiabatic basis is used. For the definition of
see the caption to Table 1.
Table 4
Results of the Full Vectorial Calculations for the Single-Mode Rectangular Waveguidea
Number of Basis Functions,
TM Mode
TE Mode
Error
Error
1.457153
—
1.457942
—
1.457205
1.458009
1.457249
1.458057
Note that the number of basis functions is actually twice the number given in this and subsequent tables owing to the vectorial nature of solutions. Note that the actual number of vector basis functions
is
Table 5
Results of the Full Vectorial Calculations of the First Bound Mode in the Rib Waveguidea
Number of Basis Functions,
TM Mode
TE Mode
Error
Error
1.473997
—
1.474862
—
1.474012
1.474872
1.474016
1.474875
Note that the actual number of vector basis functions
is
Table 6
Results of the Full Vectorial Calculations of the Last Bound Mode in the Rib Waveguidea
Number of Basis Functions,
TM Mode
TE Mode
Error
Error
1.445297
—
1.445421
—
1.445361
1.445499
1.445387
1.445533
Note that the actual number of vector basis functions
is
Tables (6)
Table 1
Effective Refractive Index,
and the Computation Error of the Scalar Wave Equation Solution in the Single-Mode Rectangular Waveguidea
Number of Basis Functions,
Sine Basis
Adiabatic Basis
Error
Error
1.453523
—
1.457050
—
1.455190
1.457102
1.456160
1.457141
1.456459
1.457152
In the case of the sine basis,
corresponds to the functions in Eq. (18); in the case of the adiabatic basis, they are defined in Eqs. (14) and (15).
Table 2
Effective Refractive Index;
and the Computation Error of the First Bound Mode in the Rib Waveguidea
Effective Refractive Index,
and the Computation Error of the Last Bound Mode in the Rib Waveguidea
Number of Basis Functions,
Sine Basis
Adiabatic Basis
Error
Error
1.444219
—
1.445291
—
1.444364
1.445351
1.444693
1.445376
1.444741
1.445386
Note that this state is found to be bound only when the adiabatic basis is used. For the definition of
see the caption to Table 1.
Table 4
Results of the Full Vectorial Calculations for the Single-Mode Rectangular Waveguidea
Number of Basis Functions,
TM Mode
TE Mode
Error
Error
1.457153
—
1.457942
—
1.457205
1.458009
1.457249
1.458057
Note that the number of basis functions is actually twice the number given in this and subsequent tables owing to the vectorial nature of solutions. Note that the actual number of vector basis functions
is
Table 5
Results of the Full Vectorial Calculations of the First Bound Mode in the Rib Waveguidea
Number of Basis Functions,
TM Mode
TE Mode
Error
Error
1.473997
—
1.474862
—
1.474012
1.474872
1.474016
1.474875
Note that the actual number of vector basis functions
is
Table 6
Results of the Full Vectorial Calculations of the Last Bound Mode in the Rib Waveguidea
Number of Basis Functions,
TM Mode
TE Mode
Error
Error
1.445297
—
1.445421
—
1.445361
1.445499
1.445387
1.445533
Note that the actual number of vector basis functions
is