COMSOL Forums: Transmission spectrum for optical waveguide

Re: Transmission spectrum for optical waveguide

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 11:17:25 +0000

hi,
im also experiencing a similar problem like yours. can u pls share ur mph file so that i will come to know how u have taken the transmission spectrum.

Re: Transmission spectrum for optical waveguide

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 02:21:12 +0000

Hi, thank you very much for your fast response.

How do you calculate the transmission spectrum, use S21 or output power/input power?

I attached my ring resonator and need to simulate the transmission spectrum, I try but always fail, would you please help me?

Re: Transmission spectrum for optical waveguide

Sat, 05 Jan 2013 03:18:01 +0000

Thank you for this response. We got the same answer from the comsol helpdesk and they now found indeed a loss instead of a gain.

Hi, I have meet similar problem with you. Can you share your mph file? thank you.

Re: Transmission spectrum for optical waveguide

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 06:29:28 +0000

Thank you for this response. We got the same answer from the comsol helpdesk and they now found indeed a loss instead of a gain.

Re: Transmission spectrum for optical waveguide

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:45:55 +0000

COMSOL's sign convention for the imaginary part of dielectric constants is opposite to that of most other photonic modeling software. Your non-physical gain might be caused by this.

Re: Transmission spectrum for optical waveguide

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 08:17:26 +0000

Hello,

Thank you for your fast response. I have tried what you suggested, but the problem with the S-parameters is that in transmission it gives me large gains for some wavelengths, which is unphysical. I would try to extract transmission through the Poynting vector, but I only want the forward propagating power at the output (and not the reflected power going back to the input as you mention) and I guess part of the reflected power is taken into account too. Is there a way to extract:
1) the excitation power at the input (and not taking the reflective power into account)
2) the forward propagating output power

Thanks in advance.

Kind regards,
F. Peyskens

Re: Transmission spectrum for optical waveguide

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 15:14:59 +0000

input of the waveguide is port 1 and output is port 2.

port 1 is input as well as output for the reflected wave.
abs(S11)^2 would be reflectivity coefficient, and abs(S21)^2 - transmission.
To validate your model you can use it to calculate reflectivity (or transmission) of SiO2 film and compare to theoretical value.

Re: Transmission spectrum for optical waveguide

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 06:44:04 +0000

Thank you for the answer. I tried however a similar reasoning with the waveguide: input of the waveguide is port 1 and output is port 2. Then I extract the S21, but this gives me not the right transmission spectrum. I tried it through the z-component of the Poynting vector (as the waveguide propagates waves in the + z-direction), but this also does not give me the right results. In case of this 2-port system I would expect that the transmission is defined as

(Power propagating in the + z-direction at the output port)/(Power calculated in the Boundary Mode Analysis at the input port)

Or am I seeing this wrong? At least, this is what you would measure experimentally.

Kind regards,
F. Peyskens

Re: Transmission spectrum for optical waveguide

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:53:26 +0000

plasmonic wire grating example is a good start. In general, the approach shown there gives the right reflection/transmission.

Transmission spectrum for optical waveguide

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 11:17:35 +0000

Hello,

I am currently trying to extract a transmission spectrum from a Si waveguide on top of SiO2 substrate. There are some gold particles on top of the Si (this configuration is taken from an article in which they simulate it with FDTD). I tried several things to extract the transmission spectrum:

1) S21 parameter in dB
2) ratio of the Poynting flux at the input and output (tried both with fields Ex,Ey,Ez, emw.Hx, emw.Hy and emw.Hz and with fields from the Boundary mode electric/magnetic field)

I am however not able to get the right profile (for some wavelenghts I even get quit high gains which is unphysical).

It seems that also reflections are taken into account, but in an experiment you will only take the ratio of the actual input power (which is forward propagating) and the forward propagating output power.

Does anybody know how to extract a sensible transmission spectrum (which you would obtain in experiments).

Thanks in advance.

F. Peyskens