Analysis of an optical rib waveguide with a nonlinear substrate
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Fabrication And Characterization Of Photonic Crystal Slow Light Waveguides And Cavities
Published on: November 30, 2012
Optics Letters
|September 11, 2009
Abstract:
A treatment of a channel waveguide with a nonlinear, Kerr-type substrate is presented. A modified effective-index method was used to calculate mode indices and electric field distributions for the nonlinear waves.
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