Optical Waveguides & Devices Modeling and Visualization Using COMSOL Multiphysics Volume 1

This pictorial manuscript is a step-by-step graphical illustrations for waveguides and devices modeling and computational physics simulation using COMSOL Multiphysics with Ray Optics, Wave Optics and AC/DC Electrostatics modules. All the example models investigated and visualized with the help of Finite Element Analysis are referenced from the standard USA undergraduate text on Optical Guided Waves and Devices by Richard Syms and John Cozens. The simulations include the use of geometrical ray tracings for point source and full electromagnetic waves source employing the Maxwell's wave equations for plane wave input. Both 2D and 3D simulation results will help in visualize the electromagnetic field propagating inside the waveguides and devices. Readers without fundamental handle on optics modeling are suggested to read the Optics Modeling and Visualization with COMSOL Multiphysics: A step by step graphical instruction manuscripts for detailed discussion. These models may be expanded to post-graduate research and industrial photonics waveguides and devices development. There are 46 chapters of different 2D and 3D optical waveguides & devices structures modeled and simulated in Volume 1 and 2. Volume 1 models include 3D single mode optical fiber, planar waveguide, channel waveguide, longitudinal and transverse phase modulator, surface plasmon, optical square waveguide, tapered waveguide, FTIR beamsplitter in ray tracing and electromagnetic wave solvers, full prism coupler, halved prism coupler, plano convex overlay lens, overlay Luneburg lens, geodesic lens with control setup for resulted electric field comparison, corrugated gratings, transmission and reflection gratings, chirped grating lens, beam expander grating, grating coupler, chirped grating coupler, buried channel waveguide. Volume 2 models continue with the ridge channel waveguide, strip loaded channel waveguide, GaAs GaAlAs planar waveguide, GaAs GaAlAs heterostructure waveguide, radiation leaks at fiber bend, radiation leaks at waveguide bend, c-axis Calcite polarizer waveguide, integrated optic normal reflector, horn channel waveguide, Y-Junction waveguide, optical phase modulator, cut off modulator, electro optic Mach-Zehnder interferometer waveguide, parallel coupling waveguide, electro optic directional coupler, single polished fiber directional coupler, double polished fiber directional coupler, tunable-coupling strength of polished double fiber coupler, cross sectional coaxial fiber coupler, 2D directional coupler with tapered coupling, corrugated reflection gratings, optical fiber grating on half polished fiber coupler, and track-changing reflector with grating assisted-coupling fiber.