Open AccessFull‐vectorial mode solver for bending waveguides with curved dielectric interfaces
Author(s) -
Wang Jiayuan,
Xiao Jinbiao
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
electronics letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 146
ISSN - 1350-911X
DOI - 10.1049/el.2016.2158
Subject(s) - curvilinear coordinates , solver , bending , chebyshev polynomials , coordinate system , boundary value problem , chebyshev filter , optics , dielectric , transformation (genetics) , perfectly matched layer , mathematical analysis , materials science , physics , geometry , mathematics , gene , composite material , mathematical optimization , biochemistry , chemistry , optoelectronics
A full‐vectorial mode solver in terms of the transverse‐magnetic field components for bending waveguides with curved dielectric interfaces is developed by using multidomain pseudospectral method based on the Chebyshev polynomials basis functions. A curvilinear coordinate transformation is used to map a subdomain with curved boundary onto a unit square. The perfectly matched layers absorption boundary conditions are incorporated into the present method for effectively demonstrating the leaky nature of the bending waveguides. A bending step‐index optical fibre with high index contrast is considered as a numerical example to validate the established method.