Bent waveguides have been used for many years to provide lateral guiding in semiconductor lasers. Since the simple effective index method applied to the bent waveguide structure is at best an estimation, we have applied the beam propagation method and the finite difference method to this problem. Our preliminary findings qualitatively agree with the effective index predictions: for a uniform index central layer, guiding on the mesa is obtained if the thickness of the sidewall layer is sufficiently thin; otherwise, guiding on the sloped regions may occur, as reported recently for visible semiconductor lasers.


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    Title :

    Lateral mode confinement in bent waveguide structures


    Contributors:
    Sun, N.H. (author) / Chou, T.M. (author) / Evans, G.A. (author) / Butler, J.K. (author) / Bour, D.P. (author) / Pang, L. (author)

    Published in:

    Proceedings of LEOS'94 ; 1 ; 323-324 vol.1


    Publication date :

    1994-01-01


    Size :

    139084 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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