Analysis and design of an endlessly single-mode finned dielectric waveguide

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 3067-3075

  Silvestre, E ^a   Russell, P S J ^a   Birks, T A ^a   Knight, J C ^a  

^a University of Bath ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTICS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; REFRACTIVE INDEX; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VECTORS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDES; SINGLE MODE WAVEGUIDE;

DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0032324945     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.15.003067     Document Type: Article

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2. errata, Opt. Lett. 22, 484–485 (1997).
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5. Although the photonic crystal fiber can support modes trapped by Bragg scattering, this requires a full twodimensional photonic bandgap, which is possible only at air-filling fractions .40%. [See T. A. Birks, P. J. Roberts, P. St. J. Russell, D. M. Atkin, and T. J. Shepherd, “Full 2-D photonic band gaps in silica/air structures,” Electron. Lett. 31, 1941–1942 (1995).] Thus Bragg modes in photonic crystal fibers with smaller air-filling fractions will always be leaky.
6. D. M. Atkin, P. St. J. Russell, T. A. Birks, and P. J. Roberts, “Photonic band structure of guided Bloch modes in high index films fully etched through with periodic microstructure,” J. Mod. Opt. 43, 1035–1053 (1996).
7. P. St. J. Russell, D. M. Atkin, and T. A. Birks, “Bound modes of photonic crystal waveguides,” in Quantum Optics in Wavelength Scale Structures, J. G. Rarity and C. Weisbuch, eds. (Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 1996).
8. P. St. J. Russell, T. A. Birks, and F. D. Lloyd-Lucas, “Photonic Bloch waves and photonic band gaps,” in Confined Electrons and Photons: New Physics and Applications, E. Burstein and C. Weisbuch, eds. (Plenum, New York, 1995), pp. 585–633.