Waveguide roughness

[Neetesh]

Dear Nazca team,

Is it possible to intentionally create roughness on a waveguide and tapers with inputs for rms size and correlation length? This can be used for studying roughness dependent loss.

Best,

Neetesh

[Xaveer]

Dear Neetesh,

In principle any geometric shape can be handled by Nazca. I don’t know how practical that will be for studying the roughness roughness in waveguides. There is not a specific functionality implemented for this.

There is literature on this which might provide a useful solution to your problem, e.g. Melati et al. “A unified approach for radiative losses and backscattering in optical waveguides”, J. of Optics, Vol. 16, 5, 2014.

Xaveer

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