title: Explicit analysis of anisotropic planar waveguides by the analytical transfer-matrix method.
abstract: The propagation properties of light in anisotropic optical planar waveguides with different index distributions are investigated with the analytical transfer-matrix method. Dispersion equations are analytically deduced by the method in terms of different index profiles. It is shown by examples that this method exhibits good accuracy compared with numerical methods while still holding physical insight.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, The State Key Laboratory on Fiber-Optic Local Area Communication Networks and Advanced Optical Communication Systems, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dong Chuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China.
authors.forename: Weijun
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Liao
authors.forename: Xianfeng
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Yuping
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Yuxing
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xia
authors.forename: Yingli
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chen