Results of Benchmark Tests for Different Numerical BPM Algorithms

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 216-224

  Nolting, H P ^a   März, Reinhard ^b  

^a FRAUNHOFER HEINRICH HERTZ INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT TESTING; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

BEAM PROPAGATION METHOD; BENCHMARK TESTS;

INTEGRATED OPTICS;

EID: 0029250257     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: 15582213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.365209     Document Type: Article

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