An Assessment of Finite Difference Beam Propagation Method

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 1990, Pages 1335-1339

  Chung, Youngchul ^a   Dagli, Nadir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTEGRATED OPTICS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES--FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS--FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; WAVEGUIDES, OPTICAL;

FINITE DIFFERENCE BEAM PROPAGATION METHOD; HELMHOLTZ EQUATIONS;

LIGHT;

EID: 0025478065     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: 15581713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.59679     Document Type: Article

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