Radiation Losses of Tapered Dielectric Slab Waveguides

Author:
  • DMDietrich Marcuse
    Dietrich Marcuse

Abstract
In this paper we calculate radiation losses of a single mode dielectric slab waveguide for TE and TM modes. The theory is based on the determination of the radiation losses of one abrupt step. We obtain the losses of arbitrarily deformed waveguides b...