It is shown that use of the effective-index method for a rectangular-core waveguide is equivalent to analysis of a pseudorectangular-core waveguide, the dielectric constant of which is higher in some of the cladding regions than that of the actual waveguide. This explains why the effective-index method gives higher values for the propagation constants for the various guided modes than other methods and different results depending on whether one starts with the longer dimension or the shorter dimension to construct the effective-index waveguide.
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Kumar et al. (1988) studied this question.
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