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9 July 2003 Coupled mode analysis of the photonic crystal waveguide
John M. Choi, Yong Xu, Amnon Yariv
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Abstract
Starting from an intuitive picture of photons bouncing back and forth within a slab of a uniform medium surrounded by photonic crystal (PC) layers, we develop a coupled mode formalism for the analysis of a PC waveguide. The modal solution in the core is given by counter-propagating waves while the cladding field is derived from a modified coupled mode formalism. This coupled mode approach is used to analyze the dispersion and loss of the PC waveguide. Although coupled mode theory is usually applied to structures with a small index contrast perturbation, we find that our coupled mode formalism with an empirical coupling constant can be used to model a large index contrast PC waveguide. A single constant is used to analyze the dispersion and the loss of a two dimensional PC waveguide, a GaAs substrate with air holes. Our results are corroborated with a two dimensional finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulation and we find good quantitative agreement between the coupled mode theory and the FDTD analysis.
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John M. Choi, Yong Xu, and Amnon Yariv "Coupled mode analysis of the photonic crystal waveguide", Proc. SPIE 5000, Photonic Crystal Materials and Devices, (9 July 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.480061
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KEYWORDS
Waveguides

Finite-difference time-domain method

Photonic crystals

Cladding

Wave propagation

Dispersion

Gallium arsenide

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