Accurate method for determining the refractive-index profiles of planar waveguides in uniaxial media with the optical axis normal to the surface

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 15, 1996, Pages 2602-2609

  Offersgaard, Jesper Falden ^a   Veng, Torben ^a   Skettrup, Torben ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Gradient index; Planar waveguides

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ANNEALING; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BIREFRINGENCE; CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ION EXCHANGE; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; PRISMS; PROTONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

GRADIENT INDEX PROFILES; LITHIUM NIOBATE; PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; PROTON EXCHANGE;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0030145306     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.002602     Document Type: Article

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