The Essence of Dielectric Waveguides

The Essence of Dielectric Waveguides is a comprehensive overview of the fundamental behavior of dielectric waveguides, essential to interpreting the numerical data results of electromagnetic waveguide problems. A wide range of waveguide coverage, from the familiar types (step-index optical fiber and planar) to the more striking (elliptical and triangular-core fibers), offers readers a rare in-depth look into the dielectric waveguide field.

Readers will find an analysis of important applications in optical communications, such as optical fibers, fiber solitons, WDM shepherd pulses, ultra low-loss THz guides, photonic crystal guides, metamaterial guides, and plasmon sub-wavelength guides. Thorough mathematical treatment, in addition to experimental data and measurements, are provided throughout the chapters as support to the theories discussed. Researchers and engineers involved with optical communications, photonics and applied electromagnetics will find The Essence of Dielectric Waveguides a valuable reference.

Zusammenfassung
It is our responsibility as scientists, knowing the great progress which comes from a satisfactory philosophy of ignorance, the great progress which is the fruit of freedom of thought, to proclaim the value of this freedom, to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed and discussed; and to demand this freedom as our duty to all coming generations Richard Feynman, 1955 First, as students from Cal Tech and MIT and then as researchers and teachers from other universities and industry, we are bene?ted greatly from the philo- phy of learning practiced by these and other distinguished universities in the US, namely, learn and teach the fundamentals and not the fashions. Under this guiding light, this comprehensive book was formed, covering the most important modern topics on guided waves. As such, it may be used as a research reference book or as a textbook for senior undergraduate students or ?rst-year graduate students. The lectures for an one-semester or one-quarter course on guided waves along surface wave structures can begin with a review of EM fundamentals (Chap. 2), and then move on to a discussion on the general important and relevant characteristics of these guided surface waves (Chap. 3). Then follows the rigorous analytic treatment for canonical structures (planar, circular, and elliptical) (Chaps. 48). By the end of these lectures, the students would have gained a very solid theoretical fo- dation on this subject. Then the fun part starts.

Inhalt
Fundamental Electromagnetic Field Equations.- Propagation Characteristics of Guided Waves Along a Dielectric Guide.- Planar Dielectric Waveguides.- Circular Dielectric Waveguides.- Elliptical Dielectric Waveguides.- Approximate Methods.- Inhomogeneous Dielectric Waveguides.- Optical Fibers.- Solitons and WDM Solitons.- Ultra Low-Loss Dielectric Waveguides.- Plasmon (SubWavelength) Waveguides.- Photonic Crystal Wave guides.- Metamaterial and Other Waveguides.- Selected Numerical Approaches.