A wide-angle, split-step finite-difference method with the classical local one-dimensional scheme is presented to analyze the 3-D semi-vectorial wave equation. The method requires only matrix multiplication for beam propagation. To validate the effectiveness, numerical results for the eigen-mode propagation in tilted step-index channel waveguides are studied, and results show that the method has high accuracy and numerical efficiency.
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