1. Optical waveguide theory and numerical modelling

   • Carlo G. Someda
   • Maurizio Zoboli

   Editorial Pages: 829 - 829

2. Performance evaluation of optical systems operating on long fibre links

   • F. Matera
   • M. Settembre

   Fibres and Systems Pages: 831 - 846

3. Design and application of double amplified recirculating ring structure for hybrid fibre buses

   • B. Vizoso
   • I. R. Matías
   • J. M. López-Higuera

   Fibres and Systems Pages: 847 - 857

4. Modelling of cross-phase-modulated fibre lasers

   • T. Aakjer
   • J. H. Povlsen

   Lasers Pages: 859 - 869

5. Nonlinear refractive index in erbium-doped optical amplifiers

   • M. Montagna
   • S. Selleri
   • M. Zoboli

   Lasers Pages: 871 - 880

6. Accurate EDFA modelling using a simple method

   • E. Jaunart
   • P. Crahay

   Lasers Pages: 881 - 886

7. SYNGRAT, an electrooptically controlled tunable filter with a synthesized grating structure

   • H. -P. Nolting
   • M. Gravert

   Devices Pages: 887 - 896

8. Collimation and focusing properties of a planar waveguide with hyperbolic secant refractive index profile: light deflector and collimator design

   • C. Bao
   • C. Gómez-Reino

   Devices Pages: 897 - 907

9. The integrated prism interpretation of multileg Mach-Zehnder interferometers based on multimode interference couplers

   • P. A. Besse
   • M. Bachmann
   • H. Melchior

   Devices Pages: 909 - 920

10. Analysis of optical rib self-imaging multimode interference (MMI) waveguide devices using the discrete spectral index method

    • G. M. Berry
    • S. V. Burke

    Devices Pages: 921 - 934

11. Modelling of self-aligned total internal reflection waveguide mirrors: an interlaboratory comparison

    • J. Čtyroký
    • H. Hoekstra
    • M. Adelaide Andrade

    Devices Pages: 935 - 942

12. New developments of a beam propagation algorithm based on the method of lines

    • S. Helfert
    • R. Pregla

    Numerical Methods Pages: 943 - 950

13. An FD-BPM with adaptive mesh for longitudinally varying optical structures

    • C. Massini
    • G. Bellanca
    • R. Sorrentino

    Numerical Methods Pages: 951 - 959

14. Efficient interface conditions for the semi-vectorial finite-difference beam propagation method

    • F. Wijnands
    • T. Rasmussen
    • R. M. de Ridder

    Numerical Methods Pages: 961 - 975

15. Radiation field propagation in low-contrast single-mode optical waveguides

    • M. Marciniak
    • B. Jaskorzyńska

    Numerical Methods Pages: 977 - 985

16. Second-mode cutoff in rectangular-core couplers using the Fourier decomposition method

    • S. J. Hewlett
    • F. Ladouceur
    • J. D. Love

    Numerical Methods Pages: 987 - 994

17. The bidirectional mode expansion method for two-dimensional waveguides: the TM case

    • J. Willems
    • J. Haes
    • R. Baets

    Numerical Methods Pages: 995 - 1007

18. Eigenmode calculation of dielectric waveguides near cutoff using the Rayleigh-Ritz method with rational basis functions

    • O. Leminger
    • R. Zengerle

    Numerical Methods Pages: 1009 - 1013

19. Determination and stability analysis of the supermodes in nonlinear directional couplers through a variational approach

    • A. D. Capobianco
    • G. F. Nalesso

    Numerical Methods Pages: 1015 - 1026