Algebraically decaying modes of dielectric planar waveguides.
We show analytically that, at a critical point where the effective refractive index of a mode coincides with the bulk index of a substrate region, for certain graded-index planar waveguides there exists a family of bound modes with algebraic (power-law) tails in the evanescent field.
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