Optical Waveguide Theory by the Finite Element Method

Recent advances in the field of guided-wave optics, such as fiber optics and integrated optics, have included the introduction of arbitrarily-shaped optical waveguides which, in many cases, also happened to be arbitrarily inhomogeneous, dissipative, anisotropic, and/or nonlinear. Most of such cases of waveguide arbitrariness do not lend themselves to analytical so­ lutions; hence, computational tools for modeling and simulation are es­ sential for successful design, optimization, and realiz...