Electromagnetic degrees of freedom of an optical system

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 892-902

  Piestun, Rafael ^a   Miller, David A B ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; PROBLEM SOLVING; TRANSCEIVERS;

THREE-DIMENSIONAL SPACE;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0000744988     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.17.000892     Document Type: Article

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