Equivalence of the coupled-mode and Floquet-Bloch formalisms in periodic optical waveguides
- 1 May 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 26 (9), 537-539
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.88247
Abstract
A comparison of two theories used to analyze distributed feedback lasers and periodic optical devices finds them, contrary to some claims, to be formally equivalent.Keywords
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