Beam Propagation Method for Design of Optical Waveguide Devices (eBook)

Ginés Lifante Pedrola, Professor, Dept. of Materials Science, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain. Lifante has been working in the area of integrated photonic devices; optical properties of active materials for over 30 years, and has taught Optics (undergraduate level) and Integrated Photonics (graduate level). He has published 177 Articles and is the author of Integrated Photonics: Fundamentals (Wiley, 2003).

Preface

List of Symbols

List of Acronyms

1 Electromagnetic theory of light

2 The beam propagation method

3 Vectorial and three dimensional beam propagation techniques

4 Special topics on BPM

5 BPM analysis of integrated photonic devices.

Appendix I Finite difference approximations of derivatives

Appendix II Tridiagonal system: the Thomas method algorithm

Appendix III Correlation and relative power between optical fields

Appendix IV Poynting vector associated to an electromagnetic wave using the SVE fields

Appendix V Finite difference FV-BPM based on the electric field using the scheme parameter control

Appendix VI Linear electro-optic effect

Appendix VII Electro-optic effect in GaAs crystal

Appendix VIII Electro-optic effect in LiNbO3 crystal

Appendix IX Padé polynomials for wide-band TD-BPM

Appendix X Obtaining the dispersion relation for a monomode waveguide using FDTD

Appendix XI Electric field distribution in coplanar electrodes

Appendix XII Three dimensional anisotropic BPM based on the electric field formulation

Appendix XIII Rate equations in a four-level atomic system

Appendix XIV Overlap integrals method

Index