Bent optical waveguide finite element analysis with a 3D envelope Maxwell model

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Autores principales: Mora-Paz, Jaime, Henneking, Stefan, Demkowicz, Leszek, Grosek, Jacob
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Publicado: 2026
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author Mora-Paz, Jaime
Henneking, Stefan
Demkowicz, Leszek
Grosek, Jacob
author_facet Mora-Paz, Jaime
Henneking, Stefan
Demkowicz, Leszek
Grosek, Jacob
contents With the goal of accurately extracting the optical field losses in a three-dimensional (3D), circularly coiled waveguide (e.g., bent optical fiber), this effort presents the numerical methodologies that are implemented for an envelope Maxwell model that propagates electromagnetic fields as an entirely boundary value problem. Our unique modeling approach includes an ultraweak variational formulation of the envelope Maxwell model in the curved geometry of the bending, which is discretized by the discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin (DPG) method, which permits residual-driven mesh and polynomial-order adaptivity. This also, then, requires a unique approach for constructing perfectly matched layers (PMLs) as absorbing boundary conditions in both the direction of optical field propagation and in the tangential directions, where unguided energy escapes the waveguide. Our coiled waveguide modeling technology extracts the mode confinement losses from the propagation of the coherent optical field through the bent waveguide. We verify our simulations against the semi-analytical results from the analogous bent slab waveguide problem, and we successfully demonstrate stable convergence to loss values for the 3D coiled optical fiber problem, which has never been done previously for our specific modeling approach.
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spellingShingle Bent optical waveguide finite element analysis with a 3D envelope Maxwell model
Mora-Paz, Jaime
Henneking, Stefan
Demkowicz, Leszek
Grosek, Jacob
Optics
Numerical Analysis
Computational Physics
78A50 (Primary), 35Q60, 35J05, 65N30 (Secondary)
J.2; G.1.8
With the goal of accurately extracting the optical field losses in a three-dimensional (3D), circularly coiled waveguide (e.g., bent optical fiber), this effort presents the numerical methodologies that are implemented for an envelope Maxwell model that propagates electromagnetic fields as an entirely boundary value problem. Our unique modeling approach includes an ultraweak variational formulation of the envelope Maxwell model in the curved geometry of the bending, which is discretized by the discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin (DPG) method, which permits residual-driven mesh and polynomial-order adaptivity. This also, then, requires a unique approach for constructing perfectly matched layers (PMLs) as absorbing boundary conditions in both the direction of optical field propagation and in the tangential directions, where unguided energy escapes the waveguide. Our coiled waveguide modeling technology extracts the mode confinement losses from the propagation of the coherent optical field through the bent waveguide. We verify our simulations against the semi-analytical results from the analogous bent slab waveguide problem, and we successfully demonstrate stable convergence to loss values for the 3D coiled optical fiber problem, which has never been done previously for our specific modeling approach.
title Bent optical waveguide finite element analysis with a 3D envelope Maxwell model
topic Optics
Numerical Analysis
Computational Physics
78A50 (Primary), 35Q60, 35J05, 65N30 (Secondary)
J.2; G.1.8
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.00155