Slab Waveguide Explained

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The slab waveguide is the simplest and most important waveguide model you will ever learn. By analyzing the slab waveguide we can understand how interference causes self-perpetuating patters, known as modes, to successfully propagate down the waveguide. These modes are at the core of all waveguides, and understanding when they exist and how to arrive at them will allow you to grasp more complex waveguides and optical systems.

This is part of my graduate series on optoelectronics / photonics, and is based primarily on Coldren's book on Lasers as well as graduate-level coursework I have taken in the EECS department at UC Berkeley.

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