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Lossy multilayer channel optical waveguides analyzed by the transmission line matrix method

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We demonstrate that the three-dimensional vectorial transmission line matrix (TLM) method is applicable to the analysis of lossy multilayer optical waveguiding structures. Any lossy multilayer waveguide geometry, including sharp discontinuities in the transverse plane, can be treated taking into account the coupling between all optical field components. The complex propagation constants (propagation constants and the attenuation coefficients) for the fundamental TE-like and TM-like modes can be determined. These parameters of the fundamental TM-like mode of a typical lossy multilayer rib dielectric waveguide are obtained as functions of free-space wavelength. Calculation of the electric-field pattern is also included. Numerical comparisons with the argument principle method (for the case of lossy multilayer slab waveguides) and the spectral-index technique (for the case of lossy multilayer rib waveguides) are also included, and it is shown that the application of the TLM method to lossy multilayer optical waveguides is accurate.

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