Analysis of the tapered waveguide

This thesis describes analytical and numerical investigations of tapered waveguide problems, for integrated optics applications. A plane wave spectral analysis, models the propagation process of the tapered waveguide and introduces the concept of an Intrinsic spectral Integral, which turns out to be...

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Main Author: Belghoraf, A.
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 1984
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/14455/
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description This thesis describes analytical and numerical investigations of tapered waveguide problems, for integrated optics applications. A plane wave spectral analysis, models the propagation process of the tapered waveguide and introduces the concept of an Intrinsic spectral Integral, which turns out to be in good agreement with calculations in terms of Adiabatic modes. This allows us to extend the Intrinsic mode concept beyond the singularity where the Adiabatic mode concept breaks down. In this sense, the implementation of the resulting spectral formulation; for the case of homogeneous media, contains all information pertinent to the modal propagation mechanism, inside and outside the tapered waveguide; before and after the singularity caused by cut off of the Adiabatic mode. The thesis is mainly concerned with implementing the Intrinsic mode theory as a numerical computational tool. In this respect, very good agreement is demonstrated between this model and calculations performed numerically using the parabolic equation method. On the other hand, the new model contains far greater physical and analytical possibilities than previous methods.
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spelling nottingham-144552025-02-28T11:30:56Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/14455/ Analysis of the tapered waveguide Belghoraf, A. This thesis describes analytical and numerical investigations of tapered waveguide problems, for integrated optics applications. A plane wave spectral analysis, models the propagation process of the tapered waveguide and introduces the concept of an Intrinsic spectral Integral, which turns out to be in good agreement with calculations in terms of Adiabatic modes. This allows us to extend the Intrinsic mode concept beyond the singularity where the Adiabatic mode concept breaks down. In this sense, the implementation of the resulting spectral formulation; for the case of homogeneous media, contains all information pertinent to the modal propagation mechanism, inside and outside the tapered waveguide; before and after the singularity caused by cut off of the Adiabatic mode. The thesis is mainly concerned with implementing the Intrinsic mode theory as a numerical computational tool. In this respect, very good agreement is demonstrated between this model and calculations performed numerically using the parabolic equation method. On the other hand, the new model contains far greater physical and analytical possibilities than previous methods. 1984 Thesis (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en arr https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/14455/1/353912.pdf Belghoraf, A. (1984) Analysis of the tapered waveguide. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.
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Analysis of the tapered waveguide
title Analysis of the tapered waveguide
title_full Analysis of the tapered waveguide
title_fullStr Analysis of the tapered waveguide
title_full_unstemmed Analysis of the tapered waveguide
title_short Analysis of the tapered waveguide
title_sort analysis of the tapered waveguide
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/14455/