Waveguide Mode Solver

Calculate the electromagnetic modes of optical waveguides.

Description

Calculate the electromagnetic eigenmodes and propagation constants of optical waveguides using the finite difference method. Features:

1. Includes vector, semivector, and scalar versions.

2. Can solve for all components of E and H.

3. Allows for perfectly-matched boundary layers.

4. Can model transverse anisotropic materials.

5. Several examples included

Also available at:

http://www.photonics.umd.edu/software/wgmodes/

Published in:

A. B. Fallahkhair, K. S. Li and T. E. Murphy, "Vector Finite Difference Modesolver for Anisotropic Dielectric Waveguides", J. Lightwave Technol. 26(11), 1423-1431, (2008).

• Acknowledgements: This submission has inspired the following:; FFT Beam Propagation Method
• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.9 (2009b)

[Felipe Vallini]

It's an excellent problem for solving waveguides without difficult.
Simple and fast to use with a clean code.

[eze reginald]

 

[cao xiangjie]

it is what i need!

[Mohamed Farhat]

it is very good work it helps me so much

[Liamin Mohd Daffy]

This is great. Do you know how to analyse the optical waveguide using finite element method?

[Vajira S]

Excellent work

[muzafar ismail]

do you know how to analysis optical buried waveguide channel using finite difference method

[Satomi Ono]

I find it hard to start using it from the very beginning. A bit more explanation about how to use the code would be of great help.

[Yuchun Lu]

There may be some errors in the formulation of axye axyw ayxn ayxs in "wgmodes.m".

They can't reduce to the formulation presented in "P.Lusse; P.Stuwe; etc., "Analysis of vectorial mode fields in optical waveguides by a new finite difference method," Lightwave Technology, Journal of , vol.12, no.3, pp.487-494, Mar 1994"

[Thomas Murphy]

I have recently updated the code to correct an algebraic error in the expressions for Axy(E), Axy(W), Ayx(N) and Ayx(S). Many thanks to [e-mail] for pointing out this bug.

[Dingshan Gao]

Yeah,it's a good frequency domain mode solver in the web. It's excellent for dielectric waveguide structures like SOI ridge waveguide.
But I find that it can not solve waveguide structures including metal material. Hope to find the improvement at this point.

[yogesh kumar]

this is good

[Vidya]

good work. Can u pl. upload matlab codes for simulation of circular and rectangular waveguides? I am trying to work on the paper:"Analysing electromagnetic structures with curved boundaries on cartesian FDTD meshes" by Yang Hao and Chris J. Railton. Hope I get some help in this regard.

[Gabby Nzulu]

I am trying to run the polymer waveguide example but I keep on receiving error messages as shown below:
generating index mesh...
??? Undefined command/function 'waveguidemeshfull'.

Error in ==> polymer_waveguide at 39
[x,y,xc,yc,nx,ny,epsxx] = waveguidemeshfull([n1,sqrt(e2xx),n3], ...
rror in ==> waveguidemesh at 31
ih = round(h/dy);

generating index mesh...
??? Undefined command/function 'waveguidemesh'.

Error in ==> silicon_channel at 23
[x,y,xc,yc,nx,ny,eps] = ...

can you please help me on what to do?
Thankyou
Gabriel

[Li]

 

[Andrzej]

Well this mode solver is briliant, however I was wondering if it is possible to extract mode area from the mode solver. Means, I calculate modes with wgmodes and after get somehow the modal area? I am looking forward to hearing from you as soon as you have some time to answer.
Andrzej

[Muddassir Iqbal]

Great work by Thomas Murphy. Good job