TY - JOUR T1 - A Construction of Beam Propagation Methods for Optical Waveguides AU - Xavier Antoine, Pierre Dreyfuss & Karim Ramdani JO - Communications in Computational Physics VL - 3 SP - 565 EP - 576 PY - 2009 DA - 2009/06 SN - 6 DO - http://doi.org/ UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/cicp/7693.html KW - AB -

This paper presents a systematic method to derive Beam Propagation Models for optical waveguides. The technique is based on the use of the symbolic calculus rules for pseudodifferential operators. The cases of straight and bent optical waveguides are successively considered.