Radiation from tapered multimode slab waveguides are calculated by the ray-optics approach in this paper. The accuracy of the simulation results can be verified by comparing them with those obtained from the beam propagation method (BPM). And it is also found that much computational time can be saved. This method can be used to design a specific tapered structure of the optical waveguide to achieve a highly-efficient sourceto-waveguide coupling.
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