Balancing the grating excitation of slab waveguide modes for the highest accuracy retrieval of the slab parameters

M. Flury (1) , N. Destouches (1) , A.V. Tishchenko (1) , O. Parriaux (1)

1 LHC - Laboratoire Hubert Curien

Using a grating coupling approach one can measure both the ordinary and the extraordinary refractive indices of a step index slab layer by measuring the effective index of TE and TM propagating modes. The conditions for the ultimate accuracy on the refractive index will be discussed.

Domains: Optics [physics.optics]

M. Flury, N. Destouches, A.V. Tishchenko, O. Parriaux. Balancing the grating excitation of slab waveguide modes for the highest accuracy retrieval of the slab parameters. OWTNM, Apr 2006, Varèse, Italy. ⟨ujm-00122930⟩