Propagation in planar waveguides and the effects of wall roughness

Optics Express

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 461-475

  Elson, J Merle ^a  

^a NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MAXWELL EQUATIONS;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS; PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; SCATTERING, ROUGH SURFACES;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0013111281     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.9.000461     Document Type: Article

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