Progress in Planar Optical Waveguides

• Main Authors: Wang, Xianping (Author), Yin, Cheng (Author), Cao, Zhuangqi (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, 266
• Subjects: Physics.; Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices.; Classical Electrodynamics.

This book provides a comprehensive description of various slab waveguide structures ranged from graded-index waveguide to symmetrical metal-cladding waveguide. In this book, the transfer Matrix method is developed and applied to analyze the simplest case and the complex generalizations. A novel symm...