WAVE PROPAGATION IN A 3-D OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE

DOI10.1142/S0218202504003465MaRDI QIDQ5315604zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Oleg Alexandrov, Giulio Ciraolo

Publication date 9 September 2005

Published in M\(^3\)AS. Mathematical Models \& Methods in Applied Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0304227

zbMATH Keywords

Green's functionradiation conditionrepresentation of solutionsopen electromagnetic wave guides

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Green's functions for ordinary differential equations (34B27) Completeness of eigenfunctions and eigenfunction expansions in context of PDEs (35P10) PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60) Antennas, waveguides in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A50) Eigenfunctions, eigenfunction expansions, completeness of eigenfunctions of ordinary differential operators (34L10)

Abstract: In this paper we study the problem of wave propagation in a 3-D optical fiber. The goal is to obtain a solution for the time-harmonic field caused by a source in a cylindrically symmetric waveguide. The geometry of the problem, corresponding to an open waveguide, makes the problem challenging. To solve it, we construct a transform theory which is a nontrivial generalization of a method for solving a 2-D version of this problem given by Magnanini and Santosa.cite{MS} The extension to 3-D is made complicated by the fact that the resulting eigenvalue problem defining the transform kernel is singular both at the origin and at infinity. The singularities require the investigation of the behavior of the solutions of the eigenvalue problem. Moreover, the derivation of the transform formulas needed to solve the wave propagation problem involves nontrivial calculations. The paper provides a complete description on how to construct the solution to the wave propagation problem in a 3-D optical waveguide with cylindrical symmetry. A follow-up article will study the particular cases of a step-index fiber and of a coaxial waveguide. In those cases we will obtain concrete formulas for the field and numerical examples.

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