Effective thickness of optical waveguides in tunable directional couplers
- 1 May 1974
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Journal of the Optical Society of America
- Vol. 64 (5), 615-618
- https://doi.org/10.1364/josa.64.000615
Abstract
The power transfer between coupled thin-film optical waveguides is studied with respect to the tuning and the strength of coupling of the guides. The experimental results show that the ray-optic theory is inadequate for the calculation of the spatial beat frequency of power exchange. When the effective-thickness concept based on phase arguments is introduced in the ray theory, a better agreement with observations is obtained, but it is found that only with the effective-thickness formula derived from energy-flow considerations is the theory in satisfactory agreement with the present measurements.Keywords
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