//clear// //Caption:Phased-Array-Based-Devices:Channel spacing interms of wavelength and path-length difference //Example10.10 //page 372 clear; clc; close; Lambda_c = 1550e-09; //central design wavelength nc = 1.45; //refractive index of grating array waveguide ns = 1.45; //refractive index of teh star coupler ng = 1.47; //group index of grating array waveguide x = 5e-06 ; //center-to-center spacing between the input waveguides d = 5e-06 ; //center-to-center spacing between the output waveguides m =1; Lf = 10e-03;//distance between transmitter and object delta_L = m*Lambda_c/nc; delta_Lambda = (x/Lf)*(ns*d/m)*(nc/ng); disp(delta_L*1e06,'Waveguide length difference in um =') disp(delta_Lambda*1e09,'Channel spacing interms of wavelength in nm=') //Result //Waveguide length difference in um = 1.0689655 // Channel spacing interms of wavelength in nm = 3.5756803