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Modelling leaky photonic wires: A mode solver comparison

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Abstract

We present results from a mode solver comparison held within the frameworkof the European COST P11 project. The structure modelled is a high-index contrast photonic wire in silicon-on- insulator subject to substrate leakage. The methods compared are both in-house developed and commercial, and range from effective index and perturbation methods, over finite-element and finite-difference codes, beam propagation methods, to film mode matching methods and plane wave expansion methods.

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  1. Ghent University, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, Ghent, 9000, Belgium

    P. Bienstman

  2. Università degli Studi di Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 181/A, I-43100, Parma, Italy

    S. Selleri & L. Rosa

  3. University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE, Enschede, The Netherlands

    H. P. Uranus & W. C. L. Hopman

  4. CoreCom, Via G. Colombo 34/5, Milano, Italy

    R. Costa

  5. Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Via Ponzio 34/5, Milano, Italy

    A. Melloni

  6. Dipartimento di Fisica “A. Volta”, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Via Bassi 6, Pavia, I-27100, Italy

    L. C. Andreani

  7. Laboratoire Charles Fabry de I’Institut d’Optique, CNRS, Univ Paris-Sud, Campus Polytechnique, RD128, 91127, Palaiseau cedex, France

    J. P. Hugonin & P. Lalanne

  8. Institute of Advanced Telecommunications, University of Wales Swansea, Singleton Park, Swansea, SA2 8PP, UK

    D. Pinto & S. S. A. Obayya

  9. Institute of Physics, Technical University of Lodz, ul, Wolczanska 219, Lodz, 93–005, Poland

    M. Dems

  10. Department of Applied Physics and Photonics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, Brussels, 1050, Belgium

    K. Panajotov

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Bienstman, P., Selleri, S., Rosa, L. et al. Modelling leaky photonic wires: A mode solver comparison. Opt Quant Electron 38, 731–759 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-006-9025-9

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Keywords

  • optical mode solvers
  • photonic wires
  • substrate leakage
  • waveguides