Analyzing multilayer optical waveguides with nonlinear cladding and substrates
Abstract
A general method for analyzing a multilayer optical waveguide with nonlinear cladding and a nonlinear substrate is presented. This method can also be used to analyze a waveguide with a multiple-quantum-well structure and a multibranch waveguide with nonlinear cladding and a nonlinear substrate. Numerical simulation results show that the analysis is correct.
- Publication:
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Journal of the Optical Society of America B Optical Physics
- Pub Date:
- August 2002
- DOI:
- 10.1364/JOSAB.19.001737
- Bibcode:
- 2002JOSAB..19.1737W
- Keywords:
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- Cladding;
- Nonlinear Optics;
- Optical Properties;
- Optical Waveguides;
- Quantum Wells;
- Semiconductors (Materials);
- Substrates;
- Optics