WKB analysis of bend losses in optical waveguides

William Berglund; Anand Gopinath

doi:10.1109/50.857763

WKB analysis of bend losses in optical waveguides

William Berglund, Anand Gopinath

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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A more complete Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) analysis of bend losses is given for a circularly curved waveguide. Using the WKB approximation with a conformal transformation of a curved optical waveguide, is shown to give more accurate bend loss results.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1161-1166
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of Lightwave Technology
Volume	18
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/50.857763
State	Published - Aug 2000

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WKB analysis of bend losses in optical waveguides

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