Abstract
Graded-index optical channel waveguides like Ti-indiffused LiNbO3 waveguides have been modelled by effective refractive index profile along the lateral direction, discretising the profile and then using the matrix method. This effective-index-based matrix method, which was earlier used to compute the modal propagation constants of Ti:LiNbO3 channel waveguides and directional couplers [Fib. Integrat. Opt. 17 (1998) 139] and the bending loss [J. Opt. Commun. 155 (1998) 125], has been established in this paper as a computationally fast, analytical method to compute electric field and modal intensity profiles in single and coupled waveguides. In order to handle coupled waveguides consisting of three waveguides, the concept of overlap integral has been used to analyse power coupling to the middle waveguide for applications in power splitting. Some of the computed intensity profiles have been compared with experimental data obtained by the authors. Although computation has been performed only for TE and TM polarisations, the method has the inherent capability of handling arbitrary polarisation.
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