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A method to retrieve optical and geometrical characteristics of three layer waveguides from m-lines measurements

Materials Science 2014-05-27 v1 Optics

Abstract

We consider three layer optical waveguides and present a method to measure simultaneously the refractive index and the thickness of each layer with m-lines spectroscopy. We establish the three layer waveguide modal dispersion equations and describe a numerical method to solve these equations. The accuracy of the method is evaluated by numerical simulations with noisy data and experimentally demonstrated using a PZT thin film placed between two ZnO layers.

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@article{arxiv.1405.6501,
  title  = {A method to retrieve optical and geometrical characteristics of three layer waveguides from m-lines measurements},
  author = {Thomas Schneider and Dominique Leduc and Cyril Lupi and Julien Cardin and Hartmut Gundel and Christian Boisrobert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.6501},
  year   = {2014}
}