Dielectric slab waveguide modes

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Rizwan
Rizwan on 17 Jul 2013
Hi,
I am new to waveguide and I want to plot the mode profiles of slab waveguide as shown in this figure http://wwwhome.math.utwente.nl/~hammer/Metric/Fig/tefEy00L.gif. Can some one please help me in this manner. I have made a code but it was not working. Code is given below. Thanks in advance.
n1c=1.77;
n2s=1.45;
n3cd=1.0;
d=2.0*10^-6;
lambda=1.00*10^-6;
c=3*10^8;
f=c/lambda;
omega=2*pi*f;
k0=omega/c;
neff=n2s:0.00001:n1c;
beta=k0.*neff;
r=sqrt((beta.^2)-(k0^2*n3cd^2));
q=sqrt(((k0^2)*n1c^2)-(beta.^2));
p=sqrt((beta.^2)-(k0^2*n2s^2));
x=-5*10^-6:2.0*10^-6:4*d;
Ey=zeros(length(x),length(r));
for i=1:length(x)
if (x(i)<0)
Ey(i,:)=exp(r*x(i));
% Ef1=Ey;
elseif (0<=x(i) )&& (x(i)<=2*d)
Ey(i,:)=cos(q*x(i))+sin(q*x(i));
% Ef2=Ey;
else
Ey(i,:)=(cos(2*d*q)+sin(2*d*q)).*exp(-p*(x(i)-(2*d)));
% Ef3=Ey;
end
end
% Ef=[Ef1 Ef2 Ef3];
mesh (abs(Ey));

Answers (1)

Elad
Elad on 17 Jul 2013
I think you first need to solve the equations and find the propogation constant \beta for the modes and than plot the fields with constant p, q and h.
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Rizwan
Rizwan on 17 Jul 2013
I think beta will be calculated according to Neff which is varying in between n1c and n2s. If you have any idea then please help me.
Elad
Elad on 17 Jul 2013
Edited: Elad on 17 Jul 2013
The image you attached seems like a field profile of a single mode, (single beta) See if this helps: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/12734-waveguide-mode-solver

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