Rigorous analysis of coupling between laser and passive waveguide in multilayer slab waveguide

An approach that combines the finite-element and boundary-element methods (FEM/BEM) is extended to the analysis of arbitrarily shaped discontinuities in a multilayer slab waveguide. Here all the eigenmodes, namely, guided modes, substrate radiation modes, and substrate-cover radiation modes, are taken into account and are constructed by an extended matrix method. Computed results are given for the rigorous analysis of the coupling between a five-or six-layer laser and a four-layer passive waveguide in a monolithically integrated circuit. Some of the results are for multimode incidence. Since the coupling is one of the most important discontinuity problems in practice, this result confirms the usefulness of the approach. >

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