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. 2015 Feb 24;5:8568. doi: 10.1038/srep08568

Table 2. Scaled propagation constants (real and imaginary parts) β(m)/k0 pertaining to the guided supermodes of the compound profile in Eq. (16), for w = 2λ0 and D = 1.02. The missing imaginary parts denote computed values below the numerical accuracy threshold (~10−6).

Supermode order Re [β(m)]/k0 Im [β(m)]/k0
m = 1 1.041 −7.92 × 10−4
m = 2 1.041 7.92 × 10−4
m = 3 1.033 -
m = 4 1.011 -
m = 5 1.004 -