Abstract

A relationship is derived between phase and group indices of a mode in anisotropic inhomogeneous guiding media. The relation is applied to the modes in a three-layered biaxially anisotropic waveguide, and it is shown that there exists an upper bound to the group index.

© 1977 Optical Society of America

Further discussion of the relation between phase and group indices in anisotropic inhomogeneous guiding media

S. Nemoto and T. Makimoto
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 67(9) 1281-1283 (1977)

On the upper bound to a group index in slab dielectric waveguides

S. Nemoto and T. Makimoto
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 66(5) 500-501 (1976)

Wave propagation in semileaky-type anisotropic thin-film optical waveguides

Y. Okamura, S. Yamamoto, and T. Makimoto
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 67(4) 539-545 (1977)

Coupled power theorem and orthogonality relations for optical disk waveguides

Nicolaos G. Alexopoulos and Stephen R. Kerner
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 67(12) 1634-1638 (1977)

Dispersion relations for complex reflectivities*†

D. Y. Smith
J. Opt. Soc. Am. 67(4) 570-571 (1977)