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Modelling of self-aligned total internal reflection waveguide mirrors: an interlaboratory comparison

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Results of modelling of light propagation in 45° self-aligned total internal reflection rib waveguide mirrors on InP substrate are compared. Six laboratories participated in the comparison with the following six modelling methods: the standard fast-Fouriertransform beam propagation method (BPM), the standard finite-difference (FD) BPM using the Crank-Nicholson scheme (two laboratories), the FD-BPM with the correction for the slowly varying envelope approximation, the method of lines, the eigenmode expansion and propagation method, and a simple method based on the field overlap. All the laboratories used the effective-index method to reduce the three-dimensional problem to two dimensions. The differences among the results obtained by different methods are briefly discussed and qualitatively compared to measured values.

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  1. J. -F. Vinchant

    Present address: Alcatel Optronics, Device & Technology Department, Nozay Cedex, France

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Chaberská 57, 182 51, Praha 8, Czech Republic

    J. Čtyroký

  2. MESA Research Institute, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

    H. Hoekstra, G. J. M. Krijnen & P. V. Lambeck

  3. Institute d'Electronique et Microélectronique du Nord, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France

    L. Joannes & D. Decoster

  4. Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    A. P. Leite & M. Adelaide Andrade

  5. University for Distant Studies, Hagen, Germany

    R. Pregla & E. Ahlers

  6. Alcatel Alsthom Recherche, Marcoussis, France

    J. -F. Vinchant

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Čtyroký, J., Hoekstra, H., Krijnen, G.J.M. et al. Modelling of self-aligned total internal reflection waveguide mirrors: an interlaboratory comparison. Opt Quant Electron 27, 935–942 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00558485

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