Optical Waveguide Modes: An Approximate Solution Using Galerkin’S Method With Hermite-Gauss Basis Functions

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1991, Pages 518-522

  Gallawa, Robert L ^a   Goyal, I C ^b   Yinggang, T ^a,c   Ghatak, Ajoy K ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROLOGY   (China)

^d Institute of Technology   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; WAVEGUIDES, OPTICAL;

EIGENVALUE PROBLEM; GALERKIN'S METHOD; HERMITE-GAUSS FUNCTIONS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE MODES;

LIGHT;

EID: 0026118615     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: 15581713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.81357     Document Type: Article

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