  We investigate excited states of the Shastry-Sutherland model using a kind of
variational method. Starting from various trial states which include one or two
triplet dimers, we numerically pursue the best evaluation of the energy for
each set of quantum numbers. We present the energy difference as a function of
either the coupling ratio or the momentum and compare them with the
perturbative calculations. Our data suggest that the helical order phase exists
between the singlet dimer phase and the magnetically ordered phase. In
comparison with the experimental data we can estimate the intra-dimer coupling
J and the inter-dimer coupling J' for
  SrCu2(BO3)2 : J'/J =0.65 and J = 87K.
